{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2012-03-12","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-06-16","city":"BATTLE GROUND","country_code":"US","county_code":"011","cruise_speed_mph":null,"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":"2028-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-19","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181407","mode_s_code":"51223727","mode_s_hex":"A527D7","model":"UH-1H","n_number":"N431LH","name":"DS FLIGHT SERVICES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N431LH is a Bell UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1971. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Ds Flight Services LLC, an LLC in Battle Ground, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 12, 2012.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ds Flight Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 16, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 12, 2012, 41 years after the 1971 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 71-20257 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N431LH 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N431LH. 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":15,"serial_number":"71-20257","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"11208 NE 266TH ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01062077","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N431LH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1971,"zip":"986046521"}