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Bell 205A-1
N216GH is a Bell 205A-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1969. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Rotorcraft Support INC, a corporation in Fillmore, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2016 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 10, 2016.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Guardian Helicopters INC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 205A-1 · all 205A-1s 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 205 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
- 30036
- 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, 1 motor · Honeywell T5317A · 1500 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A1D06A (octal 50350152)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 5, 2016
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- 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 · May 10, 2016
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00397238
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rotorcraft Support 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
- 67 D St
Fillmore, CA 93015-1668
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 N216GH links to the rest of the register
- Bell 205 58 registered
- Bell 3,080 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Guardian Helicopters INC · charter operator
- Honeywell T5317A 11 aircraft with this engine series · 1500 hp
- Type certificate H1SW · held by Bell Textron INC
- Rotorcraft Support INC 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Fillmore, CA 25 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,897 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 205 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 205 242 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 205 236 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Honeywell T5317A 12 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N216GH.json.
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The public federal record on N216GH, 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 Rotorcraft Support INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 5, 2016, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 10, 2016, 47 years after the 1969 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 30036 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N216GH 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 N216GH. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data