Bell Helicopter Textron 212
N217AP is a Bell Helicopter Textron 212, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1982. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Copter Lease LLC Trustee, an LLC in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 7, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron
- Model
- 212 · all 212s and related versions
- Serial number
- 31218
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Honeywell T5317A · 1500 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A1D391 (octal 50351621)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 6, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 6, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · April 7, 2021
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01183061
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Copter Lease LLC Trustee
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 93306
Albuquerque, NM 87199-3306
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.
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The public federal record on N217AP, 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 Copter Lease LLC Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued September 6, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 7, 2021, 39 years after the 1982 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 31218 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N217AP 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 N217AP. 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 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