{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1972-02-22","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","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":"1181034","mode_s_code":"52613621","mode_s_hex":"AB1791","model":"47G-5A","n_number":"N8135J","name":"WILBUR-ELLIS CO","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"KING CITY","damage":"SUBS","date":"1996-10-07","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX97LA006","probable_cause":"the pilot's failure to maintain adequate rotor rpm during the takeoff initial climb.","registration":"N8135J","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on October 7, 1996 at King City, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8135J is a Bell 47G-5A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1972. 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 standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 22, 1972.","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":"Standard certificate for normal, dated February 22, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25060 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N8135J 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 N8135J: Accident on October 7, 1996 at King City, 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":"25060","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":"00960232","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8135J","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1972,"zip":"939123650"}