{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2021-12-14","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-05-15","city":"BILLINGS","country_code":"US","county_code":"111","cruise_speed_mph":78,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41938","engine_horsepower":270,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"TVO-435-B1A","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-03-18","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181028","mode_s_code":"50152524","mode_s_hex":"A0D554","model":"47G-3B-1","n_number":"N153A","name":"FARWEST AVIATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N153A is a Bell 47G-3B-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1966. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Farwest Aviation LLC, an LLC in Billings, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 14, 2021.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Farwest Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 15, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 14, 2021, 55 years after the 1966 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 3550 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N153A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aspegren Robert BANDIT PRO (serial 103, cancelled April 30, 2013); Douglas DC3C (serial 9392, cancelled November 20, 1967). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N153A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":3,"serial_number":"3550","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6309 JELLISON RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00172082","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N153A","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1966,"zip":"591019306"}