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Bell 412
N397AL is a Bell 412, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1990. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Vertol Systems CO LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 15, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 23, 2006.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 412 · all 412s 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
- 36012
- 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 PT6 SERIES · 500 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- A49CD5 (octal 51116325)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 15, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 15, 2026
- 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 · May 23, 2006
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00493752
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vertol Systems CO LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 108 W 13Th St
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145
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 N397AL links to the rest of the register
- Bell 412 87 registered
- Bell 3,087 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 PT6 series 70 aircraft with this engine series · 500 hp
- Type certificate H4SW · held by Bell Textron INC
- Vertol Systems CO LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,374 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,954 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: Housing, cracked · 2012-10-18
- Report filed on this aircraft: Frame, cracked · 2011-02-02
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bulkhead, cracked · 2011-01-28
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The public federal record on N397AL, 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 Vertol Systems CO LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 15, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 23, 2006, 16 years after the 1990 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 36012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N397AL 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 N397AL. 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 22, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 22, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 22, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 22, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data