{"airworthiness_class":"Multiple","airworthiness_date":"2021-08-04","airworthiness_ops":"Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-04-11","city":"WOOD RIVER","country_code":"US","county_code":"079","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03015","engine_horsepower":650,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250-C30 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-04-17","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182108","mode_s_code":"53254756","mode_s_hex":"AD59EE","model":"206L-3","n_number":"N96BH","name":"BIGHORN FLYING CO LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N96BH is a Bell 206L-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1982. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Bighorn Flying CO LLC, an LLC in Wood River, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 11, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated August 4, 2021.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bighorn Flying CO LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 11, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 4, 2021, 39 years after the 1982 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 51011 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N96BH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 2509, cancelled June 3, 2010). 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":"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 N96BH. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":7,"serial_number":"51011","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3236 S NEBRASKA HWY 11","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00171952","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N96BH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1982,"zip":"688839725"}