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Bell 205A-1
N205WW is a Bell 205A-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1980. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Blades LLC, an LLC in Arlington, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2007 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for forest, dated May 29, 2014.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Worldwind 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
- Model
- 205A-1 · all 205A-1s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Bell 205 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
- 30329
- 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, 1 motor · Honeywell T5317B · 1500 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A1A69F (octal 50323237)
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 18, 2007
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ForestFAA certificate purpose code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 29, 2014
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00263593
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blades 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
- 18008 59Th Dr NE # 205
Arlington, WA 98223-8770
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 N205WW links to the rest of the register
- Bell 205 58 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Worldwind Helicopters, INC. · charter operator
- Honeywell T5317B 15 aircraft with this engine series · 1500 hp
- Type certificate H1SW · held by Bell Textron INC
- Blades LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Arlington, WA 145 aircraft registered in this town
- Arlington Municipal · AWO
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 205 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 205 242 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 205 236 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Honeywell T5317B 9 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N205WW.json.
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The public federal record on N205WW, 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 Blades LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 18, 2007, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 29, 2014, 34 years after the 1980 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 30329 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N205WW 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]
1 NTSB record under N205WW: Accident on September 4, 2011 at Tehachapi, CA: minor 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 205 · operated under 133
The pilot's inability to adequately execute an emergency autorotation due to the flight's low altitude during external load operations, which resulted in a hard landing. Contributing to the accident was a torsionally overstressed tachometer shaft, which sent erroneous engine rpm readings to the cockpit.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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