{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-03-18","city":"NEW ORLEANS","country_code":"US","county_code":"071","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":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-18","maker":"Bell Textron Canada Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL TEXTRON CANADA LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182166","mode_s_code":"51434255","mode_s_hex":"A638AD","model":"505","n_number":"N50MC","name":"CITY OF NEW ORLEANS","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Daggett","damage":"SUBS","date":"2011-03-20","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"WPR11FA173","probable_cause":"The pilot's decision to conduct the flight into a region of reported moderate to severe turbulence and icing conditions, followed by a loss of airplane control and an aerodynamic spin from which the pilot did not recover.","registration":"N50MC","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on March 20, 2011 at Daggett, CA: fatal, substantial damage (3 fatal).","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Grape Creek","damage":"SUBS","date":"2004-02-28","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"FTW04CA084","probable_cause":"The pilot's improper in-flight planning, which resulted in a loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.  A factor was the lack of suitable terrain available for the forced landing.","registration":"N50MC","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on February 28, 2004 at Grape Creek, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N50MC is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 5 seats. It is registered to City Of New Orleans, a government body in New Orleans, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. 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 City Of New Orleans, a government body, certificate issued March 18, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. 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 65443 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N50MC was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell Textron Canada Ltd 407 (serial 65443, cancelled November 7, 2022); Cessna P210N (serial P21000044, cancelled July 7, 2017). 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":"2 NTSB records under N50MC: Accident on March 20, 2011 at Daggett, CA: fatal, substantial damage (3 fatal). Accident on February 28, 2004 at Grape Creek, TX: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":5,"serial_number":"65443","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"LA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2100 LEON C SIMON DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01382335","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N50MC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"701223548"}