Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429
N102BF is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2013. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Bell Textron INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 20, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 429 · all 429s and related versions
- Serial number
- 57185
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW207D1/D2 · 621 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A00C41 (octal 50006101)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 20, 2013
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01124328
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bell Textron INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3255 Bell Flight Blvd
Fort Worth, TX 76118
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N102BF, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Bell Textron INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 27, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 20, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57185 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N102BF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas C-117D (serial 17216, cancelled July 30, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N102BF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data