{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2009-10-31","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"STATE CENTER","country_code":"US","county_code":"127","cruise_speed_mph":73,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41570","engine_horsepower":1300,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"R-1820 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-06-23","maker":"Sikorsky","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SIKORSKY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8141818","mode_s_code":"52735005","mode_s_hex":"ABBA05","model":"UH-34D","n_number":"N855BA","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N855BA is a Sikorsky UH-34D, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1961. It has 14 seats. It is registered to an individual in State Center, Iowa. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending\". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 31, 2009.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 31, 2009, 48 years after the 1961 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 148783 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N855BA 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 N855BA. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":14,"serial_number":"148783","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IA","status":"Registration pending","status_code":"R","status_short":"Pending","street":"2883 BROWN AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00722846","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N855BA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1961,"zip":"502479678"}