{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2025-12-09","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-12-11","city":"WATERTOWN","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"59992","engine_horsepower":460,"engine_maker":"SAFRAN","engine_model":"ARRIUS 2R","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-12-11","maker":"Bell Textron Canada Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL TEXTRON CANADA LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182166","mode_s_code":"50371656","mode_s_hex":"A1F3AE","model":"505","n_number":"N225BA","name":"R&R TESTING INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"WAUKEGAN","damage":"SUBS","date":"1996-05-08","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"CHI96FA152","probable_cause":"the pilot's inability to maintain visual contact with the runway environment due to 'flash blindness' when he turned on the airplane's landing light, and his subsequent inability to regain control of the airplane after turning off the landing light due to his loss of night vision.  A factor was the bright light condition encountered by the pilot.","registration":"N225BA","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on May 8, 1996 at Waukegan, IL: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N225BA is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. It has 5 seats. It is registered to R&R Testing INC, a corporation in Watertown, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 11, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 9, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to R&R Testing INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 11, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated December 9, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65690 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N225BA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 340A (serial 340A1029, cancelled July 20, 2017). 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 N225BA: Accident on May 8, 1996 at Waukegan, IL: serious 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":5,"serial_number":"65690","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"SD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1520 5TH ST SE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01529521","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N225BA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2025,"zip":"572015247"}