{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1983-03-09","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-07-01","city":"EMMETT","country_code":"US","county_code":"045","cruise_speed_mph":78,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41526","engine_horsepower":280,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"TVO-435-GIA","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-26","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181026","mode_s_code":"52352566","mode_s_hex":"A9D576","model":"47G-3B","n_number":"N73240","name":"BRITTON JOHN E","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CHINA LAKE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1995-02-07","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX95LA100","probable_cause":"the pilot's misjudgement of the clearance between the main rotor and a tree while maneuvering at low altitude to herd animals.","registration":"N73240","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on February 7, 1995 at China Lake, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N73240 is a Bell 47G-3B, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Emmett, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 9, 1983.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Britton John E, an individual, certificate issued July 1, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; 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 2772 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N73240 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 N73240: Accident on February 7, 1995 at China Lake, CA: no 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":3,"serial_number":"2772","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"ID","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1008 WILLIAMS RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00381797","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N73240","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"836173855"}