{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2016-06-30","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-04-08","city":"LEESBURG","country_code":"US","county_code":"069","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"30168","engine_horsepower":1561,"engine_maker":"GE","engine_model":"T700-GE-700","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-05","maker":"Bhi H60 Helicopters Llc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BHI H60 HELICOPTERS LLC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8146010","mode_s_code":"53065377","mode_s_hex":"AC6AFF","model":"UH-60A","n_number":"N9FH","name":"BRAINERD HELICOPTERS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Leesburg","damage":"DEST","date":"2021-05-25","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ERA21FA233","probable_cause":"The failure of the water tank snorkel support structure, which allowed the snorkel to contact the main rotor blades. Contributing to the accident was insufficient Federal Aviation Administration oversight of the supplemental type certificate process for the water tank and snorkel.","registration":"N9FH","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on May 25, 2021 at Leesburg, FL: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N9FH is a Bhi H60 Helicopters Llc UH-60A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1981. It has 19 seats. It is registered to Brainerd Helicopters INC, a corporation in Leesburg, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 8, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 30, 2016.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Brainerd Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 8, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 30, 2016, 35 years after the 1981 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 80-23461 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N9FH was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech 99 (serial U-94, cancelled September 16, 2009); Hosier RAND KR-1 (serial F67362, cancelled date not given). 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":"1 NTSB record under N9FH: Accident on May 25, 2021 at Leesburg, FL: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":19,"serial_number":"80-23461","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"8850 AIRPORT BLVD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01176385","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9FH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1981,"zip":"347884002"}