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Bell 212
N216AP is a Bell 212, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1973. It has 15 seats. It is registered to A&P Helicopters INC, a corporation in Richvale, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 17, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 20, 1973.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of A and P Helicopters, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen Monday at 5:22 pm.
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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
- 30576
- 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 · Honeywell T5317A · 1500 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A1CFDA (octal 50347732)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 17, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 20, 1973
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00104972
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- A&P Helicopters INC
- 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
- PO Box 245
Richvale, CA 95974-0245
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 2
Connections how N216AP 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
- A and P Helicopters, Inc. · charter operator
- Honeywell T5317A 11 aircraft with this engine series · 1500 hp
- Type certificate H4SW · held by Bell Textron INC
- A&P Helicopters INC 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Richvale, CA 34 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,610 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
- FAA orders naming the Honeywell T5317A 12 airworthiness directives
- Where N216AP is now · Last seen Monday at 5:22 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N216AP.json.
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The public federal record on N216AP, 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 A&P Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 17, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated September 20, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30576 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N216AP was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Boeing 737-7Q8 (serial 28216, cancelled April 13, 2015); Boeing 727-2A1 (serial 21600, cancelled November 19, 2003). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N216AP. 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 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