{"airworthiness_class":"Multiple","airworthiness_date":"2016-06-17","airworthiness_ops":"Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-02-22","city":"SHREVEPORT","country_code":"US","county_code":"017","cruise_speed_mph":112,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54385","engine_horsepower":420,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"250-C20B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-18","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181511","mode_s_code":"51223410","mode_s_hex":"A52708","model":"206B","n_number":"N431CA","name":"CHEM-AIR LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Lexington","damage":"DEST","date":"2006-08-27","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"DCA06MA064","probable_cause":"the flight crewmembers's failure to use available cues and aids to identify the airplane's location on the airport surface during taxi and their failure to cross-check and verify that the airplane was on the correct runway before takeoff. Contributing to the accident were the flight crew's nonpertinent conversation during taxi, which resulted in a loss of positional awareness, and the Federal Aviation Administration's failure to require that all runway crossings be authorized only by specific air traffic control clearances.","registration":"N431CA","state":"KY","summary":"Accident on August 27, 2006 at Lexington, KY: fatal, destroyed (49 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N431CA is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Chem-Air LLC, an LLC in Shreveport, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 22, 2016 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated June 17, 2016.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Chem-Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 22, 2016, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 17, 2016, 38 years after the 1978 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 2517 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N431CA was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B19 (serial 7472, cancelled May 27, 2009); Learjet Inc 23 (serial 23-030, cancelled September 20, 1978); Construcciones Aeronauticas Sa CASA-212-200 (serial 269, 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 N431CA: Accident on August 27, 2006 at Lexington, KY: fatal, destroyed (49 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":5,"serial_number":"2517","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"LA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7545 HAYGOOD RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00230945","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N431CA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1978,"zip":"711073506"}