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N217HB

Bell Homer K ROTOWAY EXEC

Valid Ohio

N217HB is a Bell Homer K ROTOWAY EXEC, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1976. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hillsboro, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 1982 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 18, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell Homer K
Model
ROTOWAY EXEC
Serial number
1240
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotorway RW-133 SERIES · 160 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1976
Transponder code
A1D434 (octal 50352064)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 11, 1982
Expires
May 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · July 18, 1980
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00501562

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bell Homer K
Type
Individual
Address
6275 Hastings Rd
Hillsboro, OH 45133-6551

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1981-12-30Bell SCORPION TOO · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N217HB, 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 Bell Homer K, an individual, certificate issued January 11, 1982, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 18, 1980, 4 years after the 1976 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 1240 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N217HB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell SCORPION TOO (serial 1240, cancelled December 30, 1981). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N217HB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data