{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2008-01-13","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2009-04-01","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":112,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54172","engine_horsepower":317,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"250-C10D","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-07","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181579","mode_s_code":"52341077","mode_s_hex":"A9C23F","model":"OH-58A","n_number":"N728LA","name":"JONES FLYING ASSOCIATION","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N728LA is a Bell OH-58A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1972. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Jones Flying Association, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2009 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated January 13, 2008.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Jones Flying Association, a corporation, certificate issued April 1, 2009, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 13, 2008, 36 years after the 1972 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 71-20818 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N728LA 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 N728LA. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"71-20818","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":"00165579","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N728LA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1972,"zip":"198104902"}