{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2009-08-17","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-04-12","city":"LAFAYETTE","country_code":"US","county_code":"157","cruise_speed_mph":63,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"27039","engine_horsepower":200,"engine_maker":"FRANKLIN","engine_model":"6V-335 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-28","maker":"Hiller - World Helicopters","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HILLER - WORLD HELICOPTERS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4360117","mode_s_code":"51603464","mode_s_hex":"A70734","model":"UH-12C","n_number":"N552DR","name":"MUSSCHE ROGER H","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Lafayette","damage":"SUBS","date":"2021-01-12","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN21LA124","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to maintain control of the helicopter shortly after liftoff into a hover, which resulted in a dynamic rollover when the left landing skid contacted the ground.","registration":"N552DR","state":"IN","summary":"Accident on January 12, 2021 at Lafayette, IN: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N552DR is a Hiller - World Helicopters UH-12C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1956. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lafayette, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 12, 2016 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 17, 2009.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mussche Roger H, an individual, certificate issued April 12, 2016, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 17, 2009, 53 years after the 1956 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 562261 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N552DR 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":"1 NTSB record under N552DR: Accident on January 12, 2021 at Lafayette, IN: 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"562261","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2330 E 700 S","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00942924","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N552DR","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1956,"zip":"479099327"}