{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2019-08-28","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2019-11-12","city":"GROTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"013","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54020","engine_horsepower":650,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"250-C47M","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-15","maker":"Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MCDONNELL DOUGLAS HELICOPTER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3027377","mode_s_code":"50763473","mode_s_hex":"A3E73B","model":"600N","n_number":"N3500X","name":"HELICOPTER FLIGHT SERVICES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"UPLAND","damage":"DEST","date":"1998-11-19","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"LAX99LA035","probable_cause":"Loss of engine power due to water contaminated fuel and the pilot's inadequate preflight inspection of the airplane.  A factor was the failure of the owner/pilot to properly maintain the airplane.","registration":"N3500X","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on November 19, 1998 at Upland, CA: serious injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N3500X is a Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 600N, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Helicopter Flight Services LLC, an LLC in Groton, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 12, 2019 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 28, 2019.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Helicopter Flight Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 12, 2019, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 28, 2019, 19 years after the 2000 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 RN047 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N3500X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20F (serial 670038, cancelled April 10, 2013). 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 N3500X: Accident on November 19, 1998 at Upland, 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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":6,"serial_number":"RN047","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"SD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"12702 406TH AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00673697","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3500X","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2000,"zip":"574455426"}