Bell TH-57
N130PL is a Bell TH-57, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1985. It has 5 seats. It is registered to State University Of Iowa, a government body in Iowa City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated August 20, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- TH-57 · all TH-57s and related versions
- Serial number
- 163345
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20J · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- A07C81 (octal 50076201)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 10, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 10, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · August 20, 2025
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01444121
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- State University Of Iowa
- Type
- Government
- Address
- Operator Perf Lab Hgr H
1801 S Riverside Dr
Iowa City, IA 52246-5704
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.
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The public federal record on N130PL, 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 State University Of Iowa, a government body, certificate issued May 10, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 20, 2025, 40 years after the 1985 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 163345 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N130PL according to the deregistered file. [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 N130PL. 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