{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2014-07-15","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-01-28","city":"CARSON CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"510","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"60006","engine_horsepower":546,"engine_maker":"TURBOMECA","engine_model":"ASTAZOU IIA","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-01-28","maker":"Aerospatiale","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSPATIALE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8680514","mode_s_code":"50662334","mode_s_hex":"A364DC","model":"SA 318C ALOUETTE AST","n_number":"N318DH","name":"INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES INC OWNER TRUSTEE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Beaver Island","damage":"DEST","date":"2001-02-09","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI01FA083","probable_cause":"The flightcrew not maintaining altitude/clearance during the circling instrument approach.  Factors were the pilot in command initiating the flight without proper weather reporting facilities at the destination, the flightcrew not flying to an alternate destination, the flightcrew not following company and FAA procedures/directives, the lack of certification of the second pilot, the operator not following company and FAA procedures/directives, and the dark night and the low ceiling.","registration":"N318DH","state":"MI","summary":"Accident on February 9, 2001 at Beaver Island, MI: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N318DH is an Aerospatiale SA 318C ALOUETTE AST, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1970. It has 5 seats. It is registered to International Air Services INC Owner Trustee, a corporation in Carson City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 15, 2014.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to International Air Services INC Owner Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued January 28, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 15, 2014, 44 years after the 1970 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 2163 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N318DH was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407 (serial 53823, cancelled June 25, 2008); Swearingen SA227-AT (serial AT469, cancelled July 30, 2001). 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 N318DH: Accident on February 9, 2001 at Beaver Island, MI: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":5,"serial_number":"2163","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NV","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"123 W NYE LN STE 129","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01150939","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N318DH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1970,"zip":"897060838"}