{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-12-16","city":"BUFFALO","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2029-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-11-08","maker":"Bell Textron Canada Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL TEXTRON CANADA LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182220","mode_s_code":"51447065","mode_s_hex":"A64E35","model":"429","n_number":"N505TJ","name":"MERCY FLIGHT INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Batavia","damage":"SUBS","date":"2021-10-07","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA22LA007","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to disengage the autopilot prior to climbing out of a fog bank.","registration":"N505TJ","state":"NY","summary":"Accident on October 7, 2021 at Batavia, NY: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N505TJ is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 429, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 9 seats. It is registered to Mercy Flight INC, a corporation in Buffalo, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mercy Flight INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 16, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57470 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N505TJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429 (serial 57029, cancelled November 3, 2022). 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 N505TJ: Accident on October 7, 2021 at Batavia, NY: 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":9,"serial_number":"57470","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"100 AMHERST VILLA RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01384156","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N505TJ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"142251432"}