{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2024-04-05","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-03-17","city":"BOONE","country_code":"US","county_code":"189","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52168","engine_horsepower":900,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"PT6T-3D","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-06-29","maker":"Bell Helicopter Textron Canada","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182157","mode_s_code":"50400127","mode_s_hex":"A20057","model":"412EP","n_number":"N228SP","name":"SAMARITANS PURSE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N228SP is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 412EP, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2010. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Samaritans Purse, a corporation in Boone, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 17, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 5, 2024.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Samaritans Purse, a corporation, certificate issued March 17, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 5, 2024, 14 years after the 2010 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 36548 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N228SP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 95-55 (serial TC-121, cancelled November 8, 2018). 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 N228SP. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":15,"serial_number":"36548","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 3000","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01013449","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N228SP","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2010,"zip":"286073000"}