{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1981-03-31","airworthiness_ops":"To show compliance with regulations","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2000-04-12","city":"CAMARILLO","country_code":"US","county_code":"111","cruise_speed_mph":103,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41551","engine_horsepower":1400,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"T53-L-13","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-01-31","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":"1181414","mode_s_code":"50674273","mode_s_hex":"A378BB","model":"205A-1","n_number":"N32240","name":"VENTURA COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"FARLEY","damage":"SUBS","date":"1983-08-13","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"MKC83FA190","probable_cause":"","registration":"N32240","state":"MO","summary":"Accident on August 13, 1983 at Farley, MO: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N32240 is a Bell 205A-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1981. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Ventura County Sheriffs Department, a government body in Camarillo, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 12, 2000 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated March 31, 1981.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ventura County Sheriffs Department, a government body, certificate issued April 12, 2000, expires January 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated March 31, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30012 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N32240 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-200 (serial 28R7535037, cancelled date not given). 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 N32240: Accident on August 13, 1983 at Farley, MO: serious 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":15,"serial_number":"30012","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"375 DURLEY AVE STE A","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00150136","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N32240","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1981,"zip":"930108528"}