{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"2003-12-19","airworthiness_ops":"Aerial surveying; Aerial advertising","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-12-17","city":"DULUTH","country_code":"US","county_code":"137","cruise_speed_mph":112,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03011","engine_horsepower":317,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250 SER 317HP","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-01","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181511","mode_s_code":"52762720","mode_s_hex":"ABE5D0","model":"206B","n_number":"N866H","name":"LAKE SUPERIOR HELICOPTERS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Spring","damage":"SUBS","date":"2014-07-30","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN14LA465","probable_cause":"The pilot's distraction by a cell phone call, which led to his failure to perform an exterior check of the helicopter and resulted in a tie-down strap remaining attached to the main rotor during the engine start.","registration":"N866H","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on July 30, 2014 at Spring, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N866H is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1981. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Lake Superior Helicopters LLC, an LLC in Duluth, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2015 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying; aerial advertising, dated December 19, 2003.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Lake Superior Helicopters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 17, 2015, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 19, 2003, 22 years after the 1981 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 3291 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N866H was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech C-45G (serial AF-313, cancelled October 22, 1971); Spartan C3-165 (serial 118, cancelled July 12, 1940). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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 N866H: Accident on July 30, 2014 at Spring, TX: 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":5,"serial_number":"3291","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4525 AIRPORT APPROACH RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00790604","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N866H","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1981,"zip":"558111534"}