{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1980-07-02","airworthiness_ops":"Aerial surveying","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1974-05-24","city":"TIOGA","country_code":"US","county_code":"105","cruise_speed_mph":112,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03013","engine_horsepower":400,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250 SER 400HP","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-05-31","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","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181511","mode_s_code":"51727764","mode_s_hex":"A7AFF4","model":"206B","n_number":"N59495","name":"KNUTSON FLYING SERVICE INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PORTAL","damage":"SUBS","date":"1986-06-04","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"DEN86LA151","probable_cause":"","registration":"N59495","state":"ND","summary":"Accident on June 4, 1986 at Portal, ND: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N59495 is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1954. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Knutson Flying Service INC, a corporation in Tioga, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 1974 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying, dated July 2, 1980.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Knutson Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 24, 1974, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 2, 1980, 26 years after the 1954 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 1373 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N59495 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Curtiss Wright C-46E (serial 2937, cancelled January 13, 1949). 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 N59495: Accident on June 4, 1986 at Portal, ND: minor 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":"1373","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"ND","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 333","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00551985","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N59495","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1954,"zip":"588520333"}