{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2017-05-16","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-09-06","city":"LIVINGSTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"067","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03022","engine_horsepower":500,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250-C28 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-09-06","maker":"Bell Helicopter Textron","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182107","mode_s_code":"51440373","mode_s_hex":"A640FB","model":"206L-1","n_number":"N5017G","name":"HELIMONTANA.COM LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Chimney Rock","damage":"SUBS","date":"2026-04-04","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR26LA146","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to maintain adequate clearance from the terrain while performing a low\u001ealtitude circling takeoff maneuver, which resulted in a dynamic rollover.","registration":"N5017G","state":"MT","summary":"Accident on April 4, 2026 at Chimney Rock, MT: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5017G is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Helimontana.Com LLC, an LLC in Livingston, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 16, 2017.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Helimontana.Com LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 6, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 16, 2017, 38 years after the 1979 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 45228 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N5017G 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 N5017G: Accident on April 4, 2026 at Chimney Rock, MT: 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":7,"serial_number":"45228","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 910","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00960975","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5017G","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"590470910"}