Bell 212
N249H is a Bell 212, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1993. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Vertol Systems CO INC, a corporation in Destin, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated May 6, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 212 · all 212s and related versions
- Serial number
- 35061
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W PT6 SERIES · 500 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1993
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A2521D (octal 50451035)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2012
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- January 16, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · May 6, 1993
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00285018
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vertol Systems CO INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 727
Destin, FL 32540-0727
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 N249H, 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 Vertol Systems CO INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 28, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated May 6, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 35061 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N249H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fleet 1 (serial 122, cancelled November 17, 1955). 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 N249H. 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