{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"2006-03-08","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-12-01","city":"BENTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":78,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42201","engine_horsepower":265,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"VO-435-B1A","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-07","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181032","mode_s_code":"50146373","mode_s_hex":"A0CCFB","model":"47G-5","n_number":"N1503L","name":"TRIPLE F FLYING INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Mifflinville","damage":"DEST","date":"2023-08-12","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ERA23LA332","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to see and avoid powerlines during an aerial application flight.","registration":"N1503L","state":"PA","summary":"Accident on August 12, 2023 at Mifflinville, PA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N1503L is a Bell 47G-5, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1971. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Triple F Flying INC, a corporation in Benton, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 1, 2014 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 8, 2006.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Triple F Flying INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 1, 2014, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 8, 2006, 35 years after the 1971 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 25042 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N1503L 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 N1503L: Accident on August 12, 2023 at Mifflinville, PA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":3,"serial_number":"25042","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"PA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"912 AUSTIN TRL","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00590830","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1503L","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1971,"zip":"178148257"}