{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1992-03-02","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; Forest; Patrolling; Other","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-01-02","city":"BAKERSFIELD","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","cruise_speed_mph":103,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41549","engine_horsepower":1150,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"T-53 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-01-02","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181410","mode_s_code":"50320651","mode_s_hex":"A1A1A9","model":"UH-1B","n_number":"N204JB","name":"PREMIER AIRCRAFT SERVICES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Arvilla","damage":"SUBS","date":"2009-09-06","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"CEN09LA565","probable_cause":"The aircraft owner/mechanic/pilot's installation of an improper tail boom assembly and the resulting fatigue failure of the tail boom's attach fittings.","registration":"N204JB","state":"ND","summary":"Accident on September 6, 2009 at Arvilla, ND: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"CARRABASSET","damage":"SUBS","date":"1994-08-31","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"BFO94LA159","probable_cause":"Fracture failure of the tail rotor drive intermediate gearbox.","registration":"N204JB","state":"ME","summary":"Accident on August 31, 1994 at Carrabasset, ME: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N204JB is a Bell UH-1B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1963. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Premier Aircraft Services LLC, an LLC in Bakersfield, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 2, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling; other, dated March 2, 1992.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Premier Aircraft Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 2, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 2, 1992, 29 years after the 1963 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 63-13088 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N204JB 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":"2 NTSB records under N204JB: Accident on September 6, 2009 at Arvilla, ND: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 31, 1994 at Carrabasset, ME: no 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":6,"serial_number":"63-13088","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5401 WHITE LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00163762","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N204JB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1963,"zip":"933096279"}