{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2000-09-30","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2001-01-25","city":"ALBANY","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03014","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-18","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182150","mode_s_code":"50310510","mode_s_hex":"A19148","model":"430","n_number":"N20SP","name":"NEW YORK STATE POLICE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CAMBRIDGE","damage":"DEST","date":"1995-02-22","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"NYC95GA060","probable_cause":"1) THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE POLICE (MSP) MANAGEMENT'S FAILURE TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE OVERSIGHT OF ITS AIR WING; 2) FUEL CONTAMINATION AND OBSTRUCTED FUEL INJECTOR NOZZLES, DUE TO INADEQUATE FUEL STORAGE AND STORAGE REQUIREMENTS BY THE MSP, RESULTING IN A LOSS OF ENGINE POWER; AND 3) THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO EXECUTE A PROPER AUTOROTATION, WHICH RESULTED IN A LOSS OF ROTOR RPM AND SUBSEQUENT LOSS OF HELICOPTER CONTROL.","registration":"N20SP","state":"MA","summary":"Accident on February 22, 1995 at Cambridge, MA: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"AVIATION UNIT","plain_english":"N20SP is a Bell 430, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 10 seats. It is registered to New York State Police, a government body in Albany, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 25, 2001 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 30, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to New York State Police, a government body, certificate issued January 25, 2001, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated September 30, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 49070 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N20SP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerospatiale AS350B (serial 1915, cancelled February 25, 1997). 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":"1 NTSB record under N20SP: Accident on February 22, 1995 at Cambridge, MA: fatal, destroyed (4 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":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":10,"serial_number":"49070","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"STATE CAMPUS BLDG 22","street2":"1220 WASHINGTON AVE","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00315930","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N20SP","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2000,"zip":"122262252"}