{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1997-07-10","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-04-13","city":"GEORGETOWN","country_code":"US","county_code":"491","cruise_speed_mph":78,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03014","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181028","mode_s_code":"50503071","mode_s_hex":"A28639","model":"47G-3B-1","n_number":"N2618W","name":"ENGLISH AIR SERVICE LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Garey","damage":"SUBS","date":"2024-02-23","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"WPR24LA093","probable_cause":"Maintenance personnel\u2019s failure to properly check the torque paint on a fuel control unit B-nut, which resulted in the loosening of the B-nut, a loss of engine power at a low altitude, and a subsequent impact with terrain.","registration":"N2618W","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on February 23, 2024 at Garey, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N2618W is a Bell 47G-3B-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1966. It has 3 seats. It is registered to English Air Service LLC, an LLC in Georgetown, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated July 10, 1997.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to English Air Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 13, 2020, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 10, 1997, 31 years after the 1966 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 6580 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N2618W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20C (serial 3294, cancelled February 21, 1966). 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 N2618W: Accident on February 23, 2024 at Garey, 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":3,"serial_number":"6580","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"221 STEARMAN DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00913252","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2618W","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1966,"zip":"786282322"}