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Bell 412
N17LA is a Bell 412, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1992. It has 15 seats. It is registered to San Juan Aviation LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 30, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 11, 1992. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 412 · all 412s 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. Composite main rotor blades. This is how the Bell 412 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
- 36044
- 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 PT6T-3 SERIES · 900 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A117CF (octal 50213717)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 30, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 30, 2026
- 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 11, 1992
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00673742
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- San Juan Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 208 N Orange St
Wilmington, DE 19801
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N17LA links to the rest of the register
- Bell 412 87 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6T-3 series 17 aircraft with this engine series · 900 hp
- Type certificate H4SW · held by Bell Textron INC
- San Juan Aviation LLC 24 aircraft in the fleet
- Wilmington, DE 7,373 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 412 61 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 412 4,697 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 412 413 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6T-3 series 2 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skin, cracked · 1999-12-21
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The public federal record on N17LA, 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 San Juan Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 30, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated March 11, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36044 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17LA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell UH-1F (serial 657912, cancelled January 14, 1992). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 23, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N17LA. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data