Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 412EP
N228SP is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 412EP, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2010. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Samaritans Purse, a corporation in Boone, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 17, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 5, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 412EP · all 412EPs and related versions
- Serial number
- 36548
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6T-3D · 900 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A20057 (octal 50400127)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 17, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 29, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · April 5, 2024
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01013449
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Samaritans Purse
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 3000
Boone, NC 28607-3000
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N228SP, 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 Samaritans Purse, a corporation, certificate issued March 17, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 5, 2024, 14 years after the 2010 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 36548 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N228SP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 95-55 (serial TC-121, cancelled November 8, 2018). 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 N228SP. 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