Bell 222A
N230SS is a Bell 222A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1983. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Southwest Heliservices LLC, an LLC in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 3, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 21, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 222A · all 222As and related versions
- Serial number
- 47086
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc 250-C30G · 650 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A20A21 (octal 50405041)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 3, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · October 21, 2021
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00771733
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southwest Heliservices LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 10523 E Fenimore Rd
Mesa, AZ 85207-3203
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N230SS, 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 Southwest Heliservices LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 3, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 21, 2021, 38 years after the 1983 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 47086 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N230SS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108-3 (serial 108-4193, cancelled November 25, 2014). 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 N230SS: Accident on August 8, 2010 at Bridgeport, CA: minor 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: Stinson 108-3 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR10CA391 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