{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1981-12-22","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"NEW BERLIN","country_code":"US","county_code":"133","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03002","engine_horsepower":250,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250 SER 250HP","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-06-30","maker":"Bell Helicopter Textron","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182107","mode_s_code":"51076220","mode_s_hex":"A47C90","model":"206L-1","n_number":"N38885","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N38885 is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1981. It has 7 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Berlin, Wisconsin. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 22, 1981.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated December 22, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45726 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N38885 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J5B (serial 5-1105, cancelled May 20, 1965). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N38885. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":7,"serial_number":"45726","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WI","status":"Registration pending","status_code":"R","status_short":"Pending","street":"20115 W RUSTIC RIDGE DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00040504","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N38885","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1981,"zip":"531463036"}