{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"Other","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2012-08-28","city":"VAN NUYS","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","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":"2028-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-03","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181028","mode_s_code":"52370010","mode_s_hex":"A9F008","model":"47G-3B-1","n_number":"N73985","name":"CITY OF LOS ANGELES","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"AIR OPERATIONS SECTION","plain_english":"N73985 is a Bell 47G-3B-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1963. It has 3 seats. It is registered to City Of Los Angeles, a government body in Van Nuys, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 2012 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to City Of Los Angeles, a government body, certificate issued August 28, 2012, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for other; the FAA file gives no certificate date.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2894 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N73985 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 N73985. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":3,"serial_number":"2894","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"C/O LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT","street2":"16617 ARMINTA ST","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00462377","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N73985","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1963,"zip":"914061611"}