{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2021-01-12","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-09-15","city":"LAGUNA NIGUEL","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54018","engine_horsepower":650,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"250-C30G/2","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-17","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182149","mode_s_code":"50404457","mode_s_hex":"A2092F","model":"230","n_number":"N230H","name":"HEGER SCOTT J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"TOPEKA","damage":"SUBS","date":"1998-08-28","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI98LA342","probable_cause":"the pilot's failure to assure the engine cowling was secured during the aircraft preflight which resulted in the cowling separating from the helicopter and damaging the main rotor and tail rotor system.  Factors associated with the accident were the cowling not being secured and inadequate design of the latching system by the manufacturer.","registration":"N230H","state":"KS","summary":"Accident on August 28, 1998 at Topeka, KS: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N230H is a Bell 230, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1994. It has 11 seats. It is registered to an individual in Laguna Niguel, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 12, 2021.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Heger Scott J, an individual, certificate issued September 15, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 12, 2021, 27 years after the 1994 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 23019 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N230H was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 A-4 (serial 7136, cancelled May 5, 1999); Fleet 1 (serial 98, cancelled April 26, 1960). 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 N230H: Accident on August 28, 1998 at Topeka, KS: 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":11,"serial_number":"23019","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1 CRYSTAL VIEW RDG","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00924822","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N230H","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1994,"zip":"926777958"}