{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1971-10-15","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2012-11-08","city":"LE SUEUR","country_code":"US","county_code":"079","cruise_speed_mph":78,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41526","engine_horsepower":280,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"TVO-435-GIA","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-23","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181029","mode_s_code":"50576266","mode_s_hex":"A2FCB6","model":"47G-3B-2","n_number":"N2918W","name":"SCOTTS HELICOPTER SERVICE INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"STRATHMORE","damage":"DEST","date":"1989-02-01","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"LAX89DVA03","probable_cause":"IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS BY THE PILOT, AND HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CLEARANCE FROM THE SERVICE TRUCK.  FACTORS RELATING TO THE ACCIDENT WERE:  THE UNFAVORABLE (VARIABLE) AND GUSTY WIND CONDITIONS AND CLOSE PROXIMITY OF THE SERVICE VEHICLE.","registration":"N2918W","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on February 1, 1989 at Strathmore, CA: serious injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N2918W is a Bell 47G-3B-2, a rotorcraft with turboprop engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1971. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Scotts Helicopter Service INC, a corporation in Le Sueur, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2012 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 15, 1971.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Scotts Helicopter Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 8, 2012, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated October 15, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6822 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N2918W 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 N2918W: Accident on February 1, 1989 at Strathmore, CA: serious injuries, destroyed. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":3,"serial_number":"6822","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 92","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00300683","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2918W","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1971,"zip":"560580092"}