{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1980-02-08","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1989-05-09","city":"HUDSONVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"139","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-17","maker":"Bell-Shippey","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL-SHIPPEY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"118084G","mode_s_code":"53102166","mode_s_hex":"AC8476","model":"BELL 47G","n_number":"N90520","name":"VANDERBIE MARK A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N90520 is a Bell-Shippey BELL 47G, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hudsonville, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 1989 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 8, 1980.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Vanderbie Mark A, an individual, certificate issued May 9, 1989, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated February 8, 1980, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial WHL-61 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N90520 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 N90520. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":3,"serial_number":"WHL-61","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7016 BINGHAM ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00831261","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N90520","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"494269511"}