Bell 205A-1
N32240 is a Bell 205A-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1981. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Ventura County Sheriffs Department, a government body in Camarillo, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 12, 2000 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated March 31, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 205A-1 · all 205A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30012
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming T53-L-13 · 1400 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A378BB (octal 50674273)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 12, 2000
- Expires
- January 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · March 31, 1981
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00150136
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ventura County Sheriffs Department
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 375 Durley Ave Ste A
Camarillo, CA 93010-8528
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N32240, 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 Ventura County Sheriffs Department, a government body, certificate issued April 12, 2000, expires January 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated March 31, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N32240 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-200 (serial 28R7535037, cancelled date not given). 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]
1 NTSB record under N32240: Accident on August 13, 1983 at Farley, MO: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28R-200 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC83FA190 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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