{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2025-12-26","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-12-19","city":"CRESTLINE","country_code":"US","county_code":"071","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-10"},{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Disclaimer","doc_type_code":"DIS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-16"},{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-16"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"51522","engine_horsepower":900,"engine_maker":"P & W","engine_model":"PT6T-3B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-03-09","maker":"Bell Helicopter Textron","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182153","mode_s_code":"53272175","mode_s_hex":"AD747D","model":"212","n_number":"N966X","name":"BH212966 LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N966X is a Bell Helicopter Textron 212, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Bh212966 LLC, an LLC in Crestline, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 19, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 26, 2025. 3 documents are on file: 2 \u00d7 bill of sale (evidence of ownership), disclaimer.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bh212966 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 19, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 26, 2025, 46 years after the 1979 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 30966 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N966X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman G-164A (serial 480, cancelled April 30, 1979). 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":"3 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 10, 2026), Disclaimer (September 16, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 16, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N966X. 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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":15,"serial_number":"30966","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 390","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01533529","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N966X","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"923250390"}