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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 205A-1 · all 205A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30329
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Honeywell T5317B · 1500 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A1A69F (octal 50323237)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 18, 2007
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Forest · May 29, 2014
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00263593
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blades LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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.
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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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR11GA431 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