{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2006-09-29","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2007-02-26","city":"COLUMBUS","country_code":"US","county_code":"049","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54014","engine_horsepower":650,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"250-C30M","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-30","maker":"Md Helicopters Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MD HELICOPTERS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3030002","mode_s_code":"51601542","mode_s_hex":"A70362","model":"369FF","n_number":"N551CP","name":"CITY OF COLUMBUS","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Columbus","damage":"SUBS","date":"2012-08-16","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN12TA550","probable_cause":"The failure of a 4th-stage turbine blade due to high-cycle fatigue, which resulted in the loss of engine power.","registration":"N551CP","state":"OH","summary":"Accident on August 16, 2012 at Columbus, OH: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"COLUMBUS","damage":"SUBS","date":"1998-04-13","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"NYC98GA093","probable_cause":"loss of engine power for undetermined reason(s).   Related factors were: lack of suitable terrain for an emergency landing; and high obstructions in the forced landing area.","registration":"N551CP","state":"OH","summary":"Accident on April 13, 1998 at Columbus, OH: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N551CP is a Md Helicopters Inc 369FF, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2006. It has 4 seats. It is registered to City Of Columbus, a government body in Columbus, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 26, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 29, 2006.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to City Of Columbus, a government body, certificate issued February 26, 2007, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated September 29, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0716FF for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N551CP 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 N551CP: Accident on August 16, 2012 at Columbus, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 13, 1998 at Columbus, OH: 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":4,"serial_number":"0716FF","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OH","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"120 MARCONI BLVD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00279849","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N551CP","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2006,"zip":"432152376"}