Bell 212
N212TP is a Bell 212, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1971. It has 15 seats. It is registered to National Test Pilot School, a corporation in Mojave, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 1998 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated June 22, 2018.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 212 · all 212s 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 212 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
- 32003
- 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, 2 motors · P&W T400-CP-400 · 2000 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A1C2A7 (octal 50341247)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 1998
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 22, 2018
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00897001
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- National Test Pilot School (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1030 Flight Line Bldg 72
Mojave, CA 93501-1679
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 N212TP links to the rest of the register
- Bell 212 59 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
- Pratt & Whitney T400-CP-400 1 aircraft with this engine series · 2000 hp
- Type certificate H4SW · held by Bell Textron INC
- National Test Pilot School 35 aircraft in the fleet
- Mojave, CA 108 aircraft registered in this town
- Mojave Air & Space Port/Rutan Field · MHV
- California 27,642 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 212 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 212 1,185 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 212 353 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N212TP.json.
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The public federal record on N212TP, 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 National Test Pilot School, a corporation, certificate issued January 28, 1998, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 22, 2018, 47 years after the 1971 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 32003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N212TP 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N212TP. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data