{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1980-07-18","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1982-01-11","city":"HILLSBORO","country_code":"US","county_code":"071","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55000","engine_horsepower":160,"engine_maker":"ROTORWAY","engine_model":"RW-133 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-04","maker":"Bell Homer K","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL HOMER K","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"13025CX","mode_s_code":"50352064","mode_s_hex":"A1D434","model":"ROTOWAY EXEC","n_number":"N217HB","name":"BELL HOMER K","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N217HB is a Bell Homer K ROTOWAY EXEC, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1976. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hillsboro, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 1982 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 18, 1980.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bell Homer K, an individual, certificate issued January 11, 1982, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 18, 1980, 4 years after the 1976 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 1240 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N217HB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell SCORPION TOO (serial 1240, cancelled December 30, 1981). 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 N217HB. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"1240","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OH","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6275 HASTINGS RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00501562","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N217HB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1976,"zip":"451336551"}