{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"2008-08-01","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Other","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-12-13","city":"SPURGER","country_code":"US","county_code":"457","cruise_speed_mph":112,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03031","engine_horsepower":250,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"T63 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-12-13","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181579","mode_s_code":"52337210","mode_s_hex":"A9BE88","model":"OH-58A","n_number":"N727LA","name":"SMART JAMES T","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N727LA is a Bell OH-58A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Spurger, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 13, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other, dated August 1, 2008.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Smart James T, an individual, certificate issued December 13, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other; 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 71-20721 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N727LA 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N727LA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":4,"serial_number":"71-20721","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 311","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00835751","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N727LA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"776600311"}