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Bell Textron Canada Ltd 429
N174EM is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 429, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2020. It has 9 seats. It is registered to West States Leasing INC, a corporation in Medford, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 8, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 22, 2020.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Capitol Helicopters Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- Model
- 429 · all 429s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Bell 429 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 57387
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW207D1/D2 · 621 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- A12879 (octal 50224171)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 8, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 8, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 22, 2020
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01319282
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- West States Leasing INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2040 Milligan Way Ste 200
Medford, OR 97504-6012
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.
Connections how N174EM links to the rest of the register
- Bell 429 174 registered
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd 434 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Capitol Helicopters Inc. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207D1/D2 125 aircraft with this engine series · 621 hp
- Type certificate R00003RD · held by Bell Textron Canada LTD
- West States Leasing INC 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Medford, OR 199 aircraft registered in this town
- Rogue Valley Intl/Medford Airport · MFR
- Oregon 7,012 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 429 38 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 429 180 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 429 56 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207D1/D2 1 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N174EM.json.
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The public federal record on N174EM, 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 West States Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 8, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 22, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57387 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N174EM 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 N174EM. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data