Bell 430
N20SP is a Bell 430, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 10 seats. It is registered to New York State Police, a government body in Albany, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 25, 2001 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 30, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 430 · all 430s and related versions
- Serial number
- 49070
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Allison 250 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A19148 (octal 50310510)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 25, 2001
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · September 30, 2000
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00315930
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- New York State Police
- Type
- Government
- Address
- State Campus Bldg 22
1220 Washington Ave
Albany, NY 12226-2252 - Co-owners
- Aviation Unit
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 N20SP, 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 New York State Police, a government body, certificate issued January 25, 2001, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated September 30, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 49070 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N20SP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerospatiale AS350B (serial 1915, cancelled February 25, 1997). 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 N20SP: Accident on February 22, 1995 at Cambridge, MA: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). 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: Eurocopter AS-350-B · operated under 091
1) THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE POLICE (MSP) MANAGEMENT'S FAILURE TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE OVERSIGHT OF ITS AIR WING; 2) FUEL CONTAMINATION AND OBSTRUCTED FUEL INJECTOR NOZZLES, DUE TO INADEQUATE FUEL STORAGE AND STORAGE REQUIREMENTS BY THE MSP, RESULTING IN A LOSS OF ENGINE POWER; AND 3) THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO EXECUTE A PROPER AUTOROTATION, WHICH RESULTED IN A LOSS OF ROTOR RPM AND SUBSEQUENT LOSS OF HELICOPTER CONTROL.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC95GA060 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