{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2000-01-13","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1997-03-26","city":"MISSOULA","country_code":"US","county_code":"063","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03002","engine_horsepower":250,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250 SER 250HP","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-09","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182206","mode_s_code":"50125462","mode_s_hex":"A0AB32","model":"407","n_number":"N142MA","name":"MINUTEMAN AVIATION INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Moab","damage":"SUBS","date":"2014-09-11","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"WPR14CA373","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to ensure adequate clearance from terrain while landing on sloped terrain.","registration":"N142MA","state":"UT","summary":"Accident on September 11, 2014 at Moab, UT: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N142MA is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1996. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Minuteman Aviation INC, a corporation in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 1997 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 13, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Minuteman Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 26, 1997, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 13, 2000, 4 years after the 1996 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53123 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N142MA according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N142MA: Accident on September 11, 2014 at Moab, UT: minor 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":7,"serial_number":"53123","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5225 HWY 10W","street2":"AIRPORT BOX 16","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00136401","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N142MA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1996,"zip":"59808"}