Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505
N225BA is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. It has 5 seats. It is registered to R&R Testing INC, a corporation in Watertown, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 11, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 9, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- Model
- 505 · all 505s and related versions
- Serial number
- 65690
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Safran ARRIUS 2R · 460 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A1F3AE (octal 50371656)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 11, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 9, 2025
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01529521
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- R&R Testing INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1520 5Th St SE
Watertown, SD 57201-5247
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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
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The public federal record on N225BA, 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 R&R Testing INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 11, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 9, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65690 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N225BA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 340A (serial 340A1029, cancelled July 20, 2017). 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]
1 NTSB record under N225BA: Accident on May 8, 1996 at Waukegan, IL: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 340A · operated under 091
the pilot's inability to maintain visual contact with the runway environment due to 'flash blindness' when he turned on the airplane's landing light, and his subsequent inability to regain control of the airplane after turning off the landing light due to his loss of night vision. A factor was the bright light condition encountered by the pilot.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI96FA152 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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