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.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Arizona Heliservices Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 222A · all 222As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Bell 222 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 47086
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc 250-C30G · 650 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A20A21 (octal 50405041)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 3, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 21, 2021
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00771733
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southwest Heliservices LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N230SS links to the rest of the register
- Bell 222 21 registered
- Bell 3,079 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Arizona Heliservices Inc. · charter operator
- Rolls-Royce 250-C30G 3 aircraft with this engine series · 650 hp
- Southwest Heliservices LLC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Mesa, AZ 714 aircraft registered in this town
- Falcon Field · FFZ
- Arizona 8,422 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 222 43 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 222 340 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 222 115 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce 250-C30G 12 airworthiness directives
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data