{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2017-10-03","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2018-01-23","city":"NEW YORK","country_code":"US","county_code":"061","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54585","engine_horsepower":650,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"250-C47B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-14","maker":"Bell Helicopter Textron Canada","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182154","mode_s_code":"53325413","mode_s_hex":"ADAB0B","model":"407","n_number":"N98ZA","name":"98ZA LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Fairfield","damage":"SUBS","date":"2022-06-04","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"ERA22FA257","probable_cause":"The failure of maintenance personnel to properly secure the tail rotor crosshead drive plate and the failure of maintenance personnel, the maintenance pilot, and the accident pilot to detect the error, which led to the helicopter\u2019s loss of tail rotor antitorque. Also causal was the pilot\u2019s failure to maintain the helicopter\u2019s airspeed at or above effective translational lift and perform a run-on landing, which resulted in a loss of control.","registration":"N98ZA","state":"NJ","summary":"Accident on June 4, 2022 at Fairfield, NJ: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N98ZA is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2015. It has 8 seats. It is registered to 98Za LLC, an LLC in New York, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 3, 2017.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to 98Za LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 23, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated October 3, 2017, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 54635 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N98ZA 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":"1 NTSB record under N98ZA: Accident on June 4, 2022 at Fairfield, NJ: serious 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":8,"serial_number":"54635","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6 E RIVER PIERS","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01190191","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N98ZA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2015,"zip":"100043200"}