{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"2010-08-10","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Other","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2010-09-08","city":"FIVE POINTS","country_code":"US","county_code":"019","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41551","engine_horsepower":1400,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"T53-L-13","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-05","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181407","mode_s_code":"52327255","mode_s_hex":"A9AEAD","model":"UH-1H","n_number":"N72297","name":"AMERICAN AG AVIATION INC DBA","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Coalinga","damage":"SUBS","date":"2022-02-17","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"WPR22FA098","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s loss of situational awareness for reasons that could not be determined given the available evidence, which led to controlled flight into terrain. Contributing to the accident was the pilot\u2019s decision to operate the helicopter while ill and fatigued.","registration":"N72297","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on February 17, 2022 at Coalinga, CA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"AMERICAN WEST AVIATION","plain_english":"N72297 is a Bell UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1967. It has 15 seats. It is registered to American AG Aviation INC DBA, a corporation in Five Points, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 8, 2010 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other, dated August 10, 2010.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to American AG Aviation INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued September 8, 2010, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 10, 2010, 43 years after the 1967 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 67-17147 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N72297 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 120 (serial 9474, cancelled August 22, 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 N72297: Accident on February 17, 2022 at Coalinga, CA: fatal, substantial damage (1 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":15,"serial_number":"67-17147","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 565","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00186361","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N72297","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1967,"zip":"936240565"}