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.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 3:43 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 212 · all 212s 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 212 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
- 35061
- 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 · P&W PT6 SERIES · 500 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1993
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A2521D (octal 50451035)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2012
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- January 16, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 6, 1993
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00285018
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vertol Systems CO INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N249H links to the rest of the register
- Bell 212 59 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
- Pratt & Whitney PT6 series 70 aircraft with this engine series · 500 hp
- Type certificate H4SW · held by Bell Textron INC
- Vertol Systems CO INC 26 aircraft in the fleet
- Destin, FL 107 aircraft registered in this town
- Destin Executive · DTS
- Florida 21,712 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 212 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 212 1,185 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 212 353 supplemental type certificates
- Where N249H is now · Last seen October 16 at 3:43 pm.
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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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data