{"airworthiness_class":"Multiple","airworthiness_date":"1977-04-14","airworthiness_ops":"Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-10-11","city":"MERRITT ISLAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"009","cruise_speed_mph":75,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41525","engine_horsepower":260,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"VO-435 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-24","maker":"Hiller","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HILLER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4360120","mode_s_code":"51371515","mode_s_hex":"A5F34D","model":"H-23D","n_number":"N48263","name":"SARAH BUSINESS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Rockledge","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-04-06","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"ERA25LA167","probable_cause":"","registration":"N48263","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on April 6, 2025 at Rockledge, FL: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N48263 is a Hiller H-23D, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1959. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sarah Business LLC, an LLC in Merritt Island, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 11, 2011 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated April 14, 1977.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Sarah Business LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 11, 2011, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 14, 1977, 18 years after the 1959 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 1208 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N48263 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft / Johnson L2B (serial L-4830, cancelled September 7, 1955). 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 N48263: Accident on April 6, 2025 at Rockledge, FL: serious 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"1208","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4405 STILLWATER DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00110255","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N48263","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1959,"zip":"329526300"}