{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2026-05-26","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-10-11","city":"KERRVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"265","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41220","engine_horsepower":1400,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"T53-L-13B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-10-11","maker":"Bell Helicopter Textron Canada","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"118140A","mode_s_code":"51460250","mode_s_hex":"A660A8","model":"UH-1D","n_number":"N51SB","name":"RICE AIRCRAFT SERVICES INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N51SB is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada UH-1D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1968. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Rice Aircraft Services INC, a corporation in Kerrville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 11, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 26, 2026.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Rice Aircraft Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 11, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 26, 2026, 58 years after the 1968 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 8130 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N51SB was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna O-2A (serial 67-21375, cancelled February 19, 2013); Beech 76 (serial ME58, cancelled February 7, 1990). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N51SB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":6,"serial_number":"8130","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2000 AIRPORT LOOP","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01524824","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N51SB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1968,"zip":"780289768"}