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N212HP

Bell 212

Valid Montana

N212HP is a Bell 212, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Corpat INC, a corporation in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 26, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 21, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
212 · all 212s and related versions
Serial number
30951
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W PT6 SERIES · 500 hp
Seats
15
Year built
1979
Cruising speed
103 mph
Transponder code
A1C1AD (octal 50340655)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 26, 2019
Expires
June 30, 2029
Last FAA action
August 11, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · March 21, 2001
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00265842

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Corpat INC
Type
Corporation
Address
2000 W Broadway St Ste B
Missoula, MT 59808-1806

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N212HP, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Corpat INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 26, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 21, 2001, 22 years after the 1979 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30951 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N212HP according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N212HP: Accident on July 21, 2009 at Willow Creek, CA: fatal (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

WPR09TA356Accident on July 21, 2009 at Willow Creek, CA: fatal (1 fatal).

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 212 · operated under PUBU

The rappeller's failure to properly latch the rappelling harness to the rappelling assembly before exiting the helicopter.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR09TA356 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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