{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2007-05-26","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-10-14","city":"CHICAGO","country_code":"US","county_code":"031","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52227","engine_horsepower":900,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"PT6T-3DF","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-09","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182205","mode_s_code":"52203557","mode_s_hex":"A9076F","model":"412EP","n_number":"N681FD","name":"CHICAGO FIRE DEPT","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Chicago","damage":"SUBS","date":"2006-06-30","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"CHI06GA174","probable_cause":"The in-flight separation of a tail rotor driveshaft hanger bearing due to inadequate maintenance performed by maintenance personnel.  Contributing to the accident was the inability to maintain directional control due to the lack of tail rotor thrust.","registration":"N681FD","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on June 30, 2006 at Chicago, IL: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N681FD is a Bell 412EP, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 15 seats. It is registered to Chicago Fire Dept, a government body in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 14, 2022 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 26, 2007.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Chicago Fire Dept, a government body, certificate issued October 14, 2022, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport; 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 36438 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N681FD 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 N681FD: Accident on June 30, 2006 at Chicago, IL: 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":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":15,"serial_number":"36438","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3954 E FOREMAN DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00353019","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N681FD","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"606176551"}