{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1992-03-05","airworthiness_ops":"Aerial surveying; Other","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-06-13","city":"RANTOUL","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"60003","engine_horsepower":858,"engine_maker":"TURBOMECA","engine_model":"ARTOUSTEIIIB","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-06-13","maker":"Aerospatiale","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSPATIALE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8680615","mode_s_code":"51671335","mode_s_hex":"A772DD","model":"SA315B","n_number":"N57948","name":"DODSON INTERNATIONAL PARTS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Hildale","damage":"SUBS","date":"2024-05-27","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"WPR24LA161","probable_cause":"Maintenance personnel\u2019s failure to properly secure the EGT thermocouples, which resulted in catastrophic overtemperature of the engine and a total loss of engine power.","registration":"N57948","state":"UT","summary":"Accident on May 27, 2024 at Hildale, UT: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Helena","damage":"SUBS","date":"2012-10-19","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN13CA027","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to properly secure the cyclic and to stop the main rotor system before exiting the helicopter, which resulted in the main rotor blades striking the tail rotor driveshaft.","registration":"N57948","state":"OK","summary":"Accident on October 19, 2012 at Helena, OK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N57948 is an Aerospatiale SA315B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1982. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Dodson International Parts INC, a corporation in Rantoul, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 13, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying; other, dated March 5, 1992.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Dodson International Parts INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 13, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 5, 1992, 10 years after the 1982 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 2628 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N57948 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech C-45H (serial AF-478, cancelled September 23, 1974). 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":"2 NTSB records under N57948: Accident on May 27, 2024 at Hildale, UT: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 19, 2012 at Helena, OK: 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":5,"serial_number":"2628","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2155 VERMONT RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00131605","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N57948","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1982,"zip":"660799014"}