{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-03-11","city":"CAPE TOWN","country_code":"ZA","county_code":"","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2029-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-22","maker":"Bell/Southwest Florida Aviatio","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL/SOUTHWEST FLORIDA AVIATIO","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"11814SF","mode_s_code":"53071123","mode_s_hex":"AC7253","model":"205 A1","n_number":"N90057","name":"HELIBASE INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N90057 is a Bell/Southwest Florida Aviatio 205 A1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 15 seats. It is registered to Helibase INC, a corporation in Cape Town. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Helibase INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 11, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30500(SW) for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N90057 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 212 (serial 30694, cancelled May 27, 1976); Cessna 140 (serial 9115, cancelled October 25, 1954). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N90057. 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":"European","region_code":"8","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":15,"serial_number":"30500(SW)","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"27 TARENTALL ST ONDER","street2":"PAPEGAAILBERG STELLENBOSCH","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00996000","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N90057","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"7600"}