{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1974-02-04","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-10-01","city":"GEORGETOWN","country_code":"US","county_code":"491","cruise_speed_mph":75,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41514","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O&VO-360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-16","maker":"Brantly","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BRANTLY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1440502","mode_s_code":"51741026","mode_s_hex":"A7C216","model":"B-2","n_number":"N5996X","name":"BOWLES ALAN B","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"HOUSTON","damage":"SUBS","date":"1994-10-01","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW95LA007","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S SELECTION OF UNSUITABLE TERRAIN.","registration":"N5996X","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on October 1, 1994 at Houston, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5996X is a Brantly B-2, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1961. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Georgetown, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 1, 2015 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 4, 1974.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bowles Alan B, an individual, certificate issued October 1, 2015, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 4, 1974, 13 years after the 1961 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 141 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N5996X according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N5996X: Accident on October 1, 1994 at Houston, TX: 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"141","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"501 WILBUR WRIGHT DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00002085","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5996X","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1961,"zip":"786262297"}