{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2024-02-21","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-03-14","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41613","engine_horsepower":1400,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"T5313B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-14","maker":"Bell Helicopter Corp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL HELICOPTER CORP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181330","mode_s_code":"52720625","mode_s_hex":"ABA195","model":"UH-1D","n_number":"N849DB","name":"D & B AVIATION BROKERAGE SERVICES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"DeLand","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-02-26","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA25LA380","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s loss of helicopter control during landing approach in strong wind conditions, which resulted in tail rotor contact with the ground during landing.","registration":"N849DB","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on February 26, 2025 at Deland, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N849DB is a Bell Helicopter Corp UH-1D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1970. It has 6 seats. It is registered to D & B Aviation Brokerage Services LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 21, 2024.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to D & B Aviation Brokerage Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 14, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 21, 2024, 54 years after the 1970 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 8494 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N849DB 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 N849DB: Accident on February 26, 2025 at Deland, FL: 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":6,"serial_number":"8494","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"251 LITTLE FALLS DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01397052","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N849DB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1970,"zip":"198081674"}