{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2017-04-18","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-07-14","city":"VAN NUYS","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52174","engine_horsepower":1679,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"PT6C-67C","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-04","maker":"Agustawestland Philadelphia","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AGUSTAWESTLAND PHILADELPHIA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0260400","mode_s_code":"50627257","mode_s_hex":"A32EAF","model":"AW139","n_number":"N304FD","name":"CITY OF LOS ANGELES","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Tujunga","damage":"SUBS","date":"2017-09-02","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ANC17LA051","probable_cause":"A yaw excursion and uncontrolled descent due to loss of tail rotor effectiveness during aerial firefighting operations resulting in an impact with trees. A contributing factor was the pilot\u2019s failure to maintain sufficient airspeed, coupled with a quartering tailwind during aerial firefighting operations. An additional factor was the operator\u2019s lack of guidance to the hazards associated with aerial firefighting operations near and around smoke columns.","registration":"N304FD","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on September 2, 2017 at Tujunga, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"AIR OPERATIONS","plain_english":"N304FD is an Agustawestland Philadelphia AW139, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2017. It has 17 seats. It is registered to City Of Los Angeles, a government body in Van Nuys, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 14, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 18, 2017.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to City Of Los Angeles, a government body, certificate issued July 14, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated April 18, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 41528 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N304FD 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 N304FD: Accident on September 2, 2017 at Tujunga, 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":17,"serial_number":"41528","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"16617 ARMINTA ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01239804","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N304FD","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2017,"zip":"914061611"}