{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2006-07-13","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-02-18","city":"BAKERSFIELD","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54525","engine_horsepower":715,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"250-C40B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-02-18","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182150","mode_s_code":"50465456","mode_s_hex":"A26B2E","model":"430","n_number":"N255MK","name":"PREMIER AIRCRAFT SERVICES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N255MK is a Bell 430, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1996. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Premier Aircraft Services LLC, an LLC in Bakersfield, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 18, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated July 13, 2006.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Premier Aircraft Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 18, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 13, 2006, 10 years after the 1996 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 49007 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N255MK according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N255MK. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":10,"serial_number":"49007","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5401 WHITE LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00075921","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N255MK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1996,"zip":"933096279"}