{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1973-07-13","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-03-06","city":"BAKERSFIELD","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","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":"2032-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-03-06","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181008","mode_s_code":"53035373","mode_s_hex":"AC3AFB","model":"47G-2","n_number":"N88755","name":"OLD TIME AG AVIATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Mettler","damage":"SUBS","date":"2026-06-01","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR26LA207","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to ensure the loading hose had been disconnected before takeoff, which resulted in an interrupted takeoff and subsequent loss of control. Contributing to the accident was the ground loader's failure to disconnect the hose before communicating with the pilot.","registration":"N88755","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on June 1, 2026 at Mettler, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N88755 is a Bell 47G-2, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to Old Time AG Aviation LLC, an LLC in Bakersfield, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 13, 1973.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Old Time AG Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 6, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2252 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N88755 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T-50 (serial 5470, cancelled April 22, 1949). 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 N88755: Accident on June 1, 2026 at Mettler, 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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":3,"serial_number":"2252","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 80323","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00931821","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N88755","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"933800323"}