{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1976-01-20","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-07-29","city":"PRIEST RIVER","country_code":"US","county_code":"017","cruise_speed_mph":78,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-27","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181005","mode_s_code":"52360276","mode_s_hex":"A9E0BE","model":"H13G","n_number":"N73550","name":"WHEATLEY LESTER E JR","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MCCORDSVILLE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1985-10-16","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI86FEX03","probable_cause":"","registration":"N73550","state":"IN","summary":"Accident on October 16, 1985 at Mccordsville, IN: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N73550 is a Bell H13G, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1953. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Priest River, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 20, 1976.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Wheatley Lester E JR, an individual, certificate issued July 29, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 20, 1976, 23 years after the 1953 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 53-3654 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N73550 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated Vultee BT-13A (serial 2703, cancelled May 2, 1951). 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 N73550: Accident on October 16, 1985 at Mccordsville, IN: 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":"53-3654","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"ID","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"505 TOAD RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00492017","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N73550","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1953,"zip":"838565241"}