Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505
N196TV is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2024. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Griffin Television Tulsa LLC, an LLC in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 20, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- Model
- 505 · all 505s and related versions
- Serial number
- 65512
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Safran ARRIUS 2R · 460 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A18032 (octal 50300062)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 10, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 20, 2023
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01442261
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Griffin Television Tulsa LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 100 W Main St Ste 100
Oklahoma City, OK 73102-9007
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N196TV, 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 Griffin Television Tulsa LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 14, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 20, 2023, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65512 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N196TV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 2758, cancelled May 1, 2008). 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 N196TV: Accident on June 20, 2007 at Sand Springs, OK: minor injuries, destroyed. 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 BH206B-3 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance with ground obstacles, which resulted in a blade strike. A contributing factor was the low altitude selected by the pilot.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW07CA143 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