{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2020-11-03","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-09-22","city":"LEESBURG","country_code":"US","county_code":"069","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"30155","engine_horsepower":1994,"engine_maker":"GE","engine_model":"T700-GE-701D","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-09-22","maker":"Bhi H60 Helicopters Llc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BHI H60 HELICOPTERS LLC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8146010","mode_s_code":"50167732","mode_s_hex":"A0EFDA","model":"UH-60A","n_number":"N16FH","name":"BRAINERD HELICOPTERS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N16FH is a Bhi H60 Helicopters Llc UH-60A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1982. It has 19 seats. It is registered to Brainerd Helicopters INC, a corporation in Leesburg, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated November 3, 2020.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Brainerd Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 22, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 3, 2020, 38 years after the 1982 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 81-23618 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N16FH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 2675, cancelled June 24, 1994). 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 N16FH. 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":19,"serial_number":"81-23618","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"8850 AIRPORT BLVD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01311439","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N16FH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1982,"zip":"347884002"}