{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-06-05","city":"GRAND PRAIRIE","country_code":"US","county_code":"113","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-18"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2033-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-06-05","maker":"Airbus Helicopters Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AIRBUS HELICOPTERS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5620037","mode_s_code":"51532702","mode_s_hex":"A6B5C2","model":"MBB-BK117 D-3","n_number":"N531SP","name":"AIRBUS HELICOPTERS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N531SP is an Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK117 D-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 9 seats. It is registered to Airbus Helicopters INC, a non-citizen corporation in Grand Prairie, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 5, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Airbus Helicopters INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued June 5, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. 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 21508 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N531SP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech D18S (serial A-433, cancelled March 25, 2013). 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":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 18, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N531SP. 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":"Non-citizen corporation","registrant_type_code":"8","seats":9,"serial_number":"21508","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2701 N FORUM DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01561278","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N531SP","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"750528927"}