{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2019-01-25","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2004-07-27","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":112,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54385","engine_horsepower":420,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"250-C20B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-07","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181511","mode_s_code":"51766662","mode_s_hex":"A7EDB2","model":"206B","n_number":"N61PH","name":"TRE AVIATION CORP","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Fort McDowell","damage":"DEST","date":"2019-04-16","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"WPR19FA109","probable_cause":"The separation of the main rotor head from the mast as a result of a sudden displacement of the cyclic stick during a low-G maneuver, leading to mast bumping. Contributing to the accident were the unsecure positioning of the flight test engineer\u2019s laptop computer and the deviation from standard operating procedures to leave the left seat cyclic control installed during the test flight.","registration":"N61PH","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on April 16, 2019 at Fort Mcdowell, AZ: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N61PH is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1981. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Tre Aviation CORP, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 27, 2004 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated January 25, 2019.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Tre Aviation CORP, a corporation, certificate issued July 27, 2004, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 25, 2019, 38 years after the 1981 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 3282 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N61PH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Swearingen SA-26AT (serial T26143, cancelled October 29, 1991). 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 N61PH: Accident on April 16, 2019 at Fort Mcdowell, AZ: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":5,"serial_number":"3282","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3511 SILVERSIDE RD STE 105","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00861481","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N61PH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1981,"zip":"198104902"}