{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2021-10-21","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-06-03","city":"MESA","country_code":"US","county_code":"013","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54016","engine_horsepower":650,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"250-C30G","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-03","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182123","mode_s_code":"50405041","mode_s_hex":"A20A21","model":"222A","n_number":"N230SS","name":"SOUTHWEST HELISERVICES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Bridgeport","damage":"SUBS","date":"2010-08-08","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"WPR10CA391","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.","registration":"N230SS","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on August 8, 2010 at Bridgeport, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N230SS is a Bell 222A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1983. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Southwest Heliservices LLC, an LLC in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 3, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 21, 2021.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Southwest Heliservices LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 3, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 21, 2021, 38 years after the 1983 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 47086 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N230SS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108-3 (serial 108-4193, cancelled November 25, 2014). 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 N230SS: Accident on August 8, 2010 at Bridgeport, CA: minor 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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":10,"serial_number":"47086","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AZ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"10523 E FENIMORE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00771733","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N230SS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1983,"zip":"852073203"}