{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1965-06-04","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-05-12","city":"CORONA","country_code":"US","county_code":"065","cruise_speed_mph":78,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"27040","engine_horsepower":240,"engine_maker":"FRANKLIN","engine_model":"6VS-335 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-05-12","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181002","mode_s_code":"52130572","mode_s_hex":"A8B17A","model":"47G","n_number":"N6597D","name":"HELI FLITE INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PLAINSBORO","damage":"DEST","date":"1983-05-15","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"NYC83FHM01","probable_cause":"","registration":"N6597D","state":"NJ","summary":"Accident on May 15, 1983 at Plainsboro, NJ: minor injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N6597D is a Bell 47G, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to Heli Flite INC, a corporation in Corona, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 4, 1965.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Heli Flite INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 12, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1017 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N6597D 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 N6597D: Accident on May 15, 1983 at Plainsboro, NJ: minor injuries, destroyed. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":3,"serial_number":"1017","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1965 AVIATION DR # F","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00014171","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N6597D","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"928788709"}