{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-03-16","city":"HATTIESBURG","country_code":"US","county_code":"035","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Loan or lien (security agreement)","doc_type_code":"S/A","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-01"},{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-02"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2033-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-06-17","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1180825","mode_s_code":"53231752","mode_s_hex":"AD33EA","model":"TH-57","n_number":"N95SM","name":"SOUTHMARK AVIATION INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N95SM is a Bell TH-57, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 5 seats. It is registered to Southmark Aviation INC, a corporation in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 16, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 2 documents are on file: loan or lien (security agreement), bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Southmark Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 16, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. 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 162043 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N95SM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Martin Scott W MARTIN BEAVER RX550 (serial BRX0167, cancelled December 5, 2020). 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":"1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 1, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N95SM. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":5,"serial_number":"162043","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"29 REFUGE LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01538046","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N95SM","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"394026622"}