{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1996-04-18","airworthiness_ops":"Carriage of cargo; Patrolling; Aerial advertising","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2010-06-24","city":"SALINAS","country_code":"US","county_code":"053","cruise_speed_mph":78,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41525","engine_horsepower":260,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"VO-435 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-14","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181032","mode_s_code":"52530526","mode_s_hex":"AAB156","model":"47G-5","n_number":"N7885S","name":"WILBUR-ELLIS CO","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"KING CITY","damage":"SUBS","date":"2000-07-28","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX00LA280","probable_cause":"The pilot's intentional flight into adverse weather which resulted in loss of visual reference and flight into power transmission wires and terrain.","registration":"N7885S","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on July 28, 2000 at King City, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"LOST HILLS","damage":"SUBS","date":"1996-07-23","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX96LA287","probable_cause":"improper installation of the carburetor air box.","registration":"N7885S","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on July 23, 1996 at Lost Hills, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N7885S is a Bell 47G-5, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1967. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Wilbur-Ellis CO, a corporation in Salinas, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2010 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for carriage of cargo; patrolling; aerial advertising, dated April 18, 1996.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Wilbur-Ellis CO, a corporation, certificate issued June 24, 2010, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 18, 1996, 29 years after the 1967 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 7873 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N7885S 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":"2 NTSB records under N7885S: Accident on July 28, 2000 at King City, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 23, 1996 at Lost Hills, 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":3,"serial_number":"7873","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 3650","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00365030","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N7885S","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1967,"zip":"939123650"}