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Bell 412EP
N282SD is a Bell 412EP, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2008. 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 July 30, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 27, 2008.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 1:14 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 412EP · all 412EPs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Composite main rotor blades. This is how the Bell 412 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
- 36466
- 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 Canada PT6T-3DF · 900 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A2D6FD (octal 50553375)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 27, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00456259
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- City of San Diego
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- Fire-Recue Dept/Air Operations
4302 Ponderosa Ave
San Diego, CA 92123-1531
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.
Connections how N282SD links to the rest of the register
- Bell 412 87 registered
- Bell 3,079 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6T-3DF 9 aircraft with this engine series · 900 hp
- Type certificate H4SW · held by Bell Textron INC
- City Of San Diego 6 aircraft in the fleet
- San Diego, CA 685 aircraft registered in this town
- Brown Field Municipal · SDM
- Montgomery-Gibbs Executive · MYF
- San Diego International · SAN
- California 27,708 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 412 61 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 412 4,697 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 412 413 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Static Inverter, overheated · 2025-09-12
- Where N282SD is now · Last seen Thursday at 1:14 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N282SD.json.
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The public federal record on N282SD, 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 July 30, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated February 27, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36466 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N282SD 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 N282SD. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data