{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2017-01-12","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-05-17","city":"OWASSO","country_code":"US","county_code":"143","cruise_speed_mph":78,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42200","engine_horsepower":250,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"VO-435-A1F","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-08-28","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181002","mode_s_code":"53243523","mode_s_hex":"AD4753","model":"47G","n_number":"N955B","name":"LAMBERT BRIAN J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"AGUADILLA","damage":"DEST","date":"1991-05-11","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA91LA141","probable_cause":"THE IMPROPER IN FLIGHT PLANNING/DECISION OF THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND TO CONDUCT AN OUT-OF-GROUND-EFFECT HOVER WITH A RIGHT CROSSWIND.  THIS RESULTED IN AN IN FLIGHT LOSS OF CONTROL DUE TO SETTLING WITH POWER AND IN FLIGHT COLLISION WITH TERRAIN.","registration":"N955B","state":"PR","summary":"Accident on May 11, 1991 at Aguadilla, PR: no injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"PONCE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1989-08-23","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA89LA229","probable_cause":"FAILURE OF THE AFT TAIL ROTOR DRIVE SHAFT.","registration":"N955B","state":"PR","summary":"Accident on August 23, 1989 at Ponce, PR: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N955B is a Bell 47G, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1954. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Owasso, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 12, 2017.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Lambert Brian J, an individual, certificate issued May 17, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 12, 2017, 63 years after the 1954 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 711 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N955B 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":"2 NTSB records under N955B: Accident on May 11, 1991 at Aguadilla, PR: no injuries, destroyed. Accident on August 23, 1989 at Ponce, PR: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":3,"serial_number":"711","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7608 N 172ND EAST AVE STE 1","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00470151","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N955B","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1954,"zip":"740558592"}