{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1965-09-01","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-01-20","city":"KILGORE","country_code":"US","county_code":"183","cruise_speed_mph":63,"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":"2033-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-01-20","maker":"Air & Space America Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AIR & SPACE AMERICA INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0440104","mode_s_code":"51774547","mode_s_hex":"A7F967","model":"18A","n_number":"N6126S","name":"WISE JOSEPH","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PADUCAH","damage":"SUBS","date":"1993-04-27","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"NYC93LA096","probable_cause":"THE INADEQUATE SUPERVISION BY THE FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR RESULTING IN A LOSS OF DIRECTIONAL CONTROL WHILE CONDUCTING A SIMULATED EMERGENCY, AND THE SUBSEQUENT COLLISION WITH THE TERRAIN DURING A ROLL OVER.","registration":"N6126S","state":"KY","summary":"Accident on April 27, 1993 at Paducah, KY: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"LONG BEACH","damage":"SUBS","date":"1991-05-17","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX91LA217","probable_cause":"GROUND RESONANCE REMEDIAL ACTION NOT PERFORMED BY THE PILOT.","registration":"N6126S","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on May 17, 1991 at Long Beach, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N6126S is an Air & Space America Inc 18A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1965. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kilgore, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 20, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 1, 1965.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Wise Joseph, an individual, certificate issued January 20, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated September 1, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-32 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N6126S 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":"2 NTSB records under N6126S: Accident on April 27, 1993 at Paducah, KY: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 17, 1991 at Long Beach, CA: 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":"18-32","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 1876","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00141246","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N6126S","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1965,"zip":"756631876"}