{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1974-12-20","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1987-01-12","city":"CARLISLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"041","cruise_speed_mph":78,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"27043","engine_horsepower":235,"engine_maker":"FRANKLIN","engine_model":"6V 350 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-02","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1180804","mode_s_code":"53311122","mode_s_hex":"AD9252","model":"47D1G","n_number":"N9738Z","name":"OLER J WESLEY JR","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N9738Z is a Bell 47D1G, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1948. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 12, 1987 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated December 20, 1974.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Oler J Wesley JR, an individual, certificate issued January 12, 1987, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 20, 1974, 26 years after the 1948 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 57 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N9738Z 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 N9738Z. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":3,"serial_number":"57","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"PA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"128 WEST LOUTHER STREET","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00904000","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9738Z","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1948,"zip":"17013"}