{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2018-09-06","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2019-07-29","city":"MEDFORD","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"33915","engine_horsepower":925,"engine_maker":"HONEYWELL","engine_model":"HTS-900-2","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-18","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182206","mode_s_code":"51611017","mode_s_hex":"A7120F","model":"407","n_number":"N555AS","name":"AERO LEASING INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Cabazon","damage":"SUBS","date":"2023-08-07","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"WPR23FA302","probable_cause":"The Skycrane flight crew\u2019s decision to enter the Fire Traffic Area\u2019s 7-nm NOCOM ring at an altitude significantly above their maximum cleared altitude, which resulted in their need for an aggressive descent into congested airspace and subsequent failure to see and avoid the Bell 407.","registration":"N555AS","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on August 7, 2023 at Cabazon, CA: fatal, substantial damage (3 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N555AS is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2004. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Aero Leasing INC, a corporation in Medford, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 6, 2018.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Aero Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 29, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 6, 2018, 14 years after the 2004 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 53591 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N555AS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 210 (serial 57146, cancelled April 22, 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":"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 N555AS: Accident on August 7, 2023 at Cabazon, CA: fatal, substantial damage (3 fatal). 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":7,"serial_number":"53591","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2040 MILLIGAN WAY STE 200","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00098839","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N555AS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2004,"zip":"975046012"}