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Bell Textron Canada Ltd 412EP
N40VA is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 412EP, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Commonwealth of Virgina Dept of State Police, a government body in Richmond, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 13, 2025.
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 5:10 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- 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
- 39135
- 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-9 · 928 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A4AC24 (octal 51126044)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 7, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 7, 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 · March 13, 2025
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01486674
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Commonwealth of Virgina Dept of State Police
- 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
- 7411 Airfield Dr
Richmond, VA 23237
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N40VA links to the rest of the register
- Bell 412 87 registered
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd 434 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-9 27 aircraft with this engine series · 928 hp
- Type certificate H4SW · held by Bell Textron INC
- Commonwealth of Virgina Dept of State Police 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Richmond, VA 139 aircraft registered in this town
- Richmond International · RIC
- Richmond Exec/Chesterfield County · FCI
- Virginia 5,972 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
- Where N40VA is now · Last seen October 15 at 5:10 pm.
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The public federal record on N40VA, 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 Commonwealth of Virgina Dept of State Police, a government body, certificate issued February 7, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated March 13, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 39135 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40VA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-151 (serial 28-7415390, cancelled June 8, 2018); Dorzback VOLMER VJ22 (serial 156, cancelled May 21, 1976). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N40VA. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data