Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 505
N279PD is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2018. It has 5 seats. It is registered to City Of Sacramento, a government body in Sacramento, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 1, 2018 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 1, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 505 · all 505s and related versions
- Serial number
- 65102
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIUS 2R · 505 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A2C934 (octal 50544464)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 1, 2018
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 1, 2018
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01272776
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- City Of Sacramento
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 5770 Freeport Blvd
Sacramento, CA 95822-3519
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N279PD, 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 City Of Sacramento, a government body, certificate issued June 1, 2018, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 1, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65102 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N279PD according to the deregistered file. [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 N279PD. 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