Bell 412EP
N21844 is a Bell 412EP, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1999. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Los Angeles Police Dept Air Support Division, a government body in Los Angeles, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 7, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 412EP · all 412EPs and related versions
- Serial number
- 36229
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6T-3 · 900 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A1DA3B (octal 50355073)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 21, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · December 7, 2000
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00113926
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Los Angeles Police Dept Air Support Division
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 555 Ramirez St Spc 475
Los Angeles, CA 90012-2592
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N21844, 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 Los Angeles Police Dept Air Support Division, a government body, certificate issued August 21, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated December 7, 2000, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36229 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N21844 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17264034, cancelled November 1, 2006). 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 N21844. 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