{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2020-02-11","airworthiness_ops":"Market survey","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2005-03-18","city":"KETCHIKAN","country_code":"US","county_code":"130","cruise_speed_mph":103,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52162","engine_horsepower":1680,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"PT6C-67D","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-09","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181414","mode_s_code":"51441417","mode_s_hex":"A6430F","model":"205A-1","n_number":"N502TH","name":"TEMSCO HELICOPTERS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MILLVILLE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1991-10-30","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"NYC92LA021","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE HELICOPTER. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE PILOT'S IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS.","registration":"N502TH","state":"NJ","summary":"Accident on October 30, 1991 at Millville, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N502TH is a Bell 205A-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1969. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Temsco Helicopters INC, a corporation in Ketchikan, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2005 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for market survey, dated February 11, 2020.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Temsco Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 18, 2005, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 11, 2020, 51 years after the 1969 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 30030 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N502TH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 0846, cancelled January 6, 1993). 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 N502TH: Accident on October 30, 1991 at Millville, NJ: 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":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":15,"serial_number":"30030","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 5057","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00165109","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N502TH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1969,"zip":"999010057"}