{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2023-10-18","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-05-05","city":"BALDWIN PARK","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":225,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03001","engine_horsepower":1500,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"V1710 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"airships","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-19","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1180201","mode_s_code":"53221055","mode_s_hex":"AD222D","model":"P63A","n_number":"N94501","name":"NICHOLS CHARLES F TRUSTEE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N94501 is a Bell P63A, an airship with turboshaft engines, built in 1943. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Baldwin Park, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 18, 2023.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Nichols Charles F Trustee, an individual, certificate issued May 5, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 18, 2023, 80 years after the 1943 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 42-69080 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N94501 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 N94501. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"42-69080","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"13470 DALEWOOD ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Blimp or dirigible","type_aircraft_code":"3","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00950091","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N94501","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1943,"zip":"917065834"}