{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1979-04-13","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2012-02-01","city":"COTULLA","country_code":"US","county_code":"283","cruise_speed_mph":64,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41524","engine_horsepower":205,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"HIO-360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-21","maker":"Hughes","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HUGHES","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4470504","mode_s_code":"51677717","mode_s_hex":"A77FCF","model":"269C","n_number":"N58208","name":"SMITH HELICOPTER INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"TAMPA","damage":"SUBS","date":"1985-03-26","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA85LA133","probable_cause":"","registration":"N58208","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on March 26, 1985 at Tampa, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N58208 is a Hughes 269C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Smith Helicopter INC, a corporation in Cotulla, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 13, 1979.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Smith Helicopter INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 1, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated April 13, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 390780 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N58208 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing A75 (serial 75-235, cancelled December 29, 1948). 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 N58208: Accident on March 26, 1985 at Tampa, FL: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":3,"serial_number":"390780","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 398","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00311655","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N58208","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"780140398"}