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A Bell 429, the same model family as N429AR
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N429AR

Bell Textron Canada Ltd 429

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida

N429AR is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 429, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2020. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Abfd LLC, an LLC in Deerfield Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 19, 2020.

Where is it now Last seen October 12 at 4:52 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell Textron Canada Ltd
Model
429 · all 429s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Bell 429 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
57411
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 PW207D1/D2 · 621 hp
Seats
9
Year built
2020
Transponder code
A51D1E (octal 51216436)

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 23, 2023
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
February 23, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 19, 2020
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01321259

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Abfd 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
565 e Hillsboro Blvd
Deerfield Beach, FL 33441-3543

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 N429AR links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
  • Abfd LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
Place
  • Deerfield Beach, FL 34 aircraft registered in this town
  • Florida 21,706 aircraft registered
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N429AR.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N429AR, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Abfd LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 23, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated August 19, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57411 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N429AR according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N429AR: Accident on August 21, 2015 at Port O'Connor, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CEN15LA395Accident on August 21, 2015 at Port O'Connor, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 57035

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429 · operated under 091

The fatigue failure of the tail rotor pitch change link spherical bearing housing as a result of corrosion pitting.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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