{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2008-08-05","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2010-06-07","city":"WACO","country_code":"US","county_code":"309","cruise_speed_mph":112,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03086","engine_horsepower":317,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"T63-A-700","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-10","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181579","mode_s_code":"50522440","mode_s_hex":"A2A520","model":"OH-58A","n_number":"N27LC","name":"CROSBY MICHAEL J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N27LC is a Bell OH-58A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Waco, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 7, 2010 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated August 5, 2008.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Crosby Michael J, an individual, certificate issued June 7, 2010, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 5, 2008, 35 years after the 1973 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 73-21872 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N27LC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Maggert Charles H GN-1 AIRCAMPER (serial 925, cancelled November 12, 1992). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N27LC. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"73-21872","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"729 CEDAR ROCK PKWY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00196511","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N27LC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1973,"zip":"767122603"}