Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 505
N1243Y is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2018. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Turbines LTD, a corporation in West Point, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 16, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 24, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 505 · all 505s and related versions
- Serial number
- 65137
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Safran ARRIUS 2R · 460 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A06566 (octal 50062546)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 16, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 24, 2023
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01407636
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Turbines LTD
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 140 19Th Rd
West Point, NE 68788-4506
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1243Y, 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 Turbines LTD, a corporation, certificate issued August 16, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 24, 2023, 5 years after the 2018 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. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65137 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1243Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 208B (serial 208B1011, cancelled July 11, 2016). 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]
1 NTSB record under N1243Y: Accident on November 11, 2024 at Lago Vista, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 505 · operated under 091
The flight instructor’s improper recovery from a practice autorotation which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA084 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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