{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1979-05-10","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-05-19","city":"SALINA","country_code":"US","county_code":"169","cruise_speed_mph":112,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03013","engine_horsepower":400,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250 SER 400HP","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181511","mode_s_code":"50113126","mode_s_hex":"A09656","model":"206B","n_number":"N137MS","name":"KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Oak Hill","damage":"SUBS","date":"2003-10-24","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"MIA04LA011","probable_cause":"The pilots failure to maintain airspeed while maneuvering to re-enter the pattern resulting in an inadvertent stall and impact with trees and the ground during the subsequent uncontrolled descent.","registration":"N137MS","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on October 24, 2003 at Oak Hill, FL: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N137MS is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Kansas State University, a government body in Salina, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 10, 1979.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Kansas State University, a government body, certificate issued May 19, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated May 10, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2686 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N137MS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Let N P Kinovice Z37A (serial 14-05, cancelled March 12, 2007). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N137MS: Accident on October 24, 2003 at Oak Hill, FL: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":5,"serial_number":"2686","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"C/O POLYTECHNIC CAMPUS AVN DEPT","street2":"2310 CENTENNIAL RD","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00833032","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N137MS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"674018058"}