{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1978-07-31","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-05-14","city":"ROCHELLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"141","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41525","engine_horsepower":260,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"VO-435 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Texas Helicopter Corp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"TEXAS HELICOPTER CORP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8930103","mode_s_code":"51501107","mode_s_hex":"A68247","model":"OH-13E/M74","n_number":"N51850","name":"HENDRICKSON FLYING SERVICE INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"NORMAN PARK","damage":"DEST","date":"1989-08-02","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ATL89FA193","probable_cause":"IMPROPER PLANNING/DECISION BY THE PILOT, WHICH RESULTED IN HIS PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT FROM EXPOSURE TO LANNATE, AND HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN ALTITUDE/CLEARANCE ABOVE THE GROUND.  A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS:  FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO USE A RESPIRATOR WHILE HANDLING OR BEING EXPOSED TO LANNATE.,","registration":"N51850","state":"GA","summary":"Accident on August 2, 1989 at Norman Park, GA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N51850 is a Texas Helicopter Corp OH-13E/M74, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Hendrickson Flying Service INC, a corporation in Rochelle, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2011 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated July 31, 1978.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Hendrickson Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 14, 2011, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated July 31, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 78-018 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N51850 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A (serial T42-3234, cancelled October 24, 1955). 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 N51850: Accident on August 2, 1989 at Norman Park, GA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"78-018","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"21532 QUINTA RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00402225","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N51850","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1978,"zip":"61068"}