Bell 430
N427SP is a Bell 430, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2001. It has 10 seats. It is registered to State Of New York, a government body in Albany, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2002 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 22, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 430 · all 430s and related versions
- Serial number
- 49083
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc 250-C40B · 715 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A5173E (octal 51213476)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 21, 2002
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- November 14, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · October 22, 2001
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00934074
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- State Of New York
- Type
- Government
- Address
- State Campus Bldg 22
1200 Washington Ave
Albany, NY 12226 - Co-owners
- Division Of State Police
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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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N427SP, 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 State Of New York, a government body, certificate issued February 21, 2002, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated October 22, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 49083 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N427SP was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Glasair Aviation Usa Llc SPORTSMAN GS-2 (serial 7402, cancelled March 14, 2018); Swearingen SA-226AT (serial AT018, cancelled October 21, 2010). 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 N427SP: Accident on May 19, 2010 at West Memphis, AR: no 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: Swearingen SA-226AT · operated under 091
Failure of both pilots to ensure that the airplane was properly configured for landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN10CA261 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