{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2005-05-24","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2018-10-11","city":"LUMPKIN","country_code":"US","county_code":"259","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-16","maker":"Garlick Helicopters Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GARLICK HELICOPTERS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3740006","mode_s_code":"51363473","mode_s_hex":"A5E73B","model":"OH-58A+","n_number":"N48LA","name":"B & S AIR INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Newport","damage":"SUBS","date":"2010-07-28","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"ERA10LA379","probable_cause":"Inadequate maintenance inspections of the main rotor blade inertia screw holes, which resulted in a main rotor blade failure due to fatigue. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's inadequate preflight inspection of the main rotor blades.","registration":"N48LA","state":"TN","summary":"Accident on July 28, 2010 at Newport, TN: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N48LA is a Garlick Helicopters Inc OH-58A+, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1970. It has 3 seats. It is registered to B & S Air INC, a corporation in Lumpkin, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 11, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated May 24, 2005.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to B & S Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 11, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 24, 2005, 35 years after the 1970 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 70-15130 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N48LA 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 N48LA: Accident on July 28, 2010 at Newport, TN: minor 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":3,"serial_number":"70-15130","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"GA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 725","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00885352","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N48LA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1970,"zip":"318150725"}