{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1998-10-08","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-12-05","city":"SANTA FE","country_code":"US","county_code":"167","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03015","engine_horsepower":650,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250-C30 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"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":"2023-09-22","maker":"Mcdonnell Douglas Heli Co","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MCDONNELL DOUGLAS HELI CO","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3027371","mode_s_code":"51530757","mode_s_hex":"A6B1EF","model":"369FF","n_number":"N530RL","name":"GULF HELICOPTERS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Marana","damage":"SUBS","date":"2011-01-31","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"WPR11GA115","probable_cause":"An inadvertent tail rotor strike during an attempted pinnacle landing, which resulted in the pilot's loss of control of the helicopter. Inhospitable terrain/topography contributed to the severity of the accident.","registration":"N530RL","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on January 31, 2011 at Marana, AZ: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Lihue","damage":"SUBS","date":"2004-07-16","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX04CA268","probable_cause":"The pilot misjudging the clearance between the tree and the main rotor blades.  Contributing factors to the accident were the high workload of the pilot and his lack of experience with bambi bucket operations.","registration":"N530RL","state":"HI","summary":"Accident on July 16, 2004 at Lihue, HI: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N530RL is a Mcdonnell Douglas Heli Co 369FF, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Gulf Helicopters LLC, an LLC in Santa Fe, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 8, 1998.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Gulf Helicopters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 5, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0602FF for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N530RL according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N530RL: Accident on January 31, 2011 at Marana, AZ: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on July 16, 2004 at Lihue, HI: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"0602FF","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"8426 FM 2004 RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00343826","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N530RL","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"775108494"}