{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2000-07-14","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2013-08-07","city":"MATHER","country_code":"US","county_code":"067","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"60010","engine_horsepower":432,"engine_maker":"TURBOMECA","engine_model":"ARRIUS 2F","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-25","maker":"Eurocopter","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"EUROCOPTER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8680987","mode_s_code":"50465645","mode_s_hex":"A26BA5","model":"EC120B","n_number":"N255SD","name":"SACRAMENTO COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Rancho Cordova","damage":"SUBS","date":"2022-12-11","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR23LA068","probable_cause":"The pilot receiving instruction\u2019s loss of helicopter control during landing with a crosswind, and the flight instructor\u2019s delayed remedial action.","registration":"N255SD","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on December 11, 2022 at Rancho Cordova, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N255SD is an Eurocopter EC120B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Sacramento County Sheriffs Office, a government body in Mather, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 7, 2013 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 14, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Sacramento County Sheriffs Office, a government body, certificate issued August 7, 2013, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated July 14, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1102 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N255SD 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":"1 NTSB record under N255SD: Accident on December 11, 2022 at Rancho Cordova, CA: 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":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":5,"serial_number":"1102","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3846 BAZLEY WAY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00775860","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N255SD","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2000,"zip":"95655"}