{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2007-01-25","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2007-05-24","city":"CAHOKIA","country_code":"US","county_code":"163","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03099","engine_horsepower":650,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250-C30P","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Bell Helicopter Textron Canada","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181455","mode_s_code":"51577255","mode_s_hex":"A6FEAD","model":"206L-4","n_number":"N55SL","name":"HELICOPTERS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Beverly","damage":"SUBS","date":"2014-05-21","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA14LA248","probable_cause":"Maintenance personnel\u2019s inadequate inspection of the engine\u2019s outer combustion case, which resulted in the failure of the case due to fatigue cracks that initiated on the inside surface of the case and the subsequent total loss of engine power.","registration":"N55SL","state":"MA","summary":"Accident on May 21, 2014 at Beverly, MA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N55SL is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2007. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Helicopters INC, a corporation in Cahokia, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2007 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 25, 2007.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 24, 2007, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated January 25, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52347 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N55SL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gates Learjet 25D (serial 219, cancelled November 20, 2000). 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 N55SL: Accident on May 21, 2014 at Beverly, MA: 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":5,"serial_number":"52347","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"ST LOUIS DOWNTOWN AIRPORT","street2":"5000 OMEGA DR","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00290349","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N55SL","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2007,"zip":"62206"}