Bell 205A-1
N2773H is a Bell 205A-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Summit Helicopters INC, a corporation in Salem, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2003 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated January 4, 2006.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Summit Helicopters, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen October 12 at 1:58 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 205A-1 · all 205A-1s 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 205 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
- 30296
- 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, 1 motor · Lycoming T-53 · 1150 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A2C346 (octal 50541506)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 2003
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 131 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 4, 2006
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00780163
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Summit Helicopters 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 909
Salem, VA 24153-0909
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 N2773H links to the rest of the register
- Bell 205 58 registered
- Bell 3,080 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Summit Helicopters, Inc. · charter operator
- Lycoming T-53 60 aircraft with this engine series · 1150 hp
- Type certificate H1SW · held by Bell Textron INC
- Summit Helicopters INC 15 aircraft in the fleet
- Salem, VA 53 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,973 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 205 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 205 242 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 205 237 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Lycoming T-53 9 reports since 1995
- Where N2773H is now · Last seen October 12 at 1:58 pm.
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The public federal record on N2773H, 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 Summit Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 30, 2003, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 4, 2006, 27 years after the 1979 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 30296 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2773H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ercoupe 415-C (serial 3398, cancelled December 16, 1970). 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 N2773H. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data