{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1976-06-04","airworthiness_ops":"Forest; Other","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-03-14","city":"LITTLE FALLS","country_code":"US","county_code":"097","cruise_speed_mph":78,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"27033","engine_horsepower":210,"engine_maker":"FRANKLIN","engine_model":"6V4 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-03-14","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1180809","mode_s_code":"51101157","mode_s_hex":"A4826F","model":"OH-13E","n_number":"N39WL","name":"MINNESOTA MILITARY AND VETERANS MUSEUM","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MOUNTAIN VIEW","damage":"SUBS","date":"1994-07-03","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW94LA221","probable_cause":"THE FUEL EXHAUSTION AS RESULT OF A STRUCK FUEL DRAIN VALVE. FACTORS WERE THE HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE, AND THE UNSUITABLE TERRAIN AT THE PILOT'S DISPOSAL FOR THE FORCED LANDING.","registration":"N39WL","state":"AR","summary":"Accident on July 3, 1994 at Mountain View, AR: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N39WL is a Bell OH-13E, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to Minnesota Military And Veterans Museum, a corporation in Little Falls, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for forest; other, dated June 4, 1976.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Minnesota Military And Veterans Museum, a corporation, certificate issued March 14, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for forest; other; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 514 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N39WL 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 N39WL: Accident on July 3, 1994 at Mountain View, AR: 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":3,"serial_number":"514","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"15000 HIGHWAY 115","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00340554","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N39WL","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"563454173"}