Bell 212
N281SD is a Bell 212, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1980. It has 15 seats. It is registered to City Of San Diego, a government body in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 29, 2005 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 17, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 212 · all 212s and related versions
- Serial number
- 31147
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6T-3 SERIES · 900 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A2D346 (octal 50551506)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 29, 2005
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · June 17, 2005
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00355031
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- City Of San Diego
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 202 C St
San Diego, CA 92101-4806 - Co-owners
- Fire Rescue Dept
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.
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The public federal record on N281SD, 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 San Diego, a government body, certificate issued November 29, 2005, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 17, 2005, 25 years after the 1980 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 31147 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N281SD 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 N281SD. 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