Bell Textron Canada Ltd 429
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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- Model
- 429 · all 429s and related versions
- Serial number
- 57411
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW207D1/D2 · 621 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- A51D1E (octal 51216436)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 23, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 19, 2020
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01321259
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Abfd LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 565 E Hillsboro Blvd
Deerfield Beach, FL 33441-3543
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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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.
Valid registration to Abfd LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 23, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 19, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57411 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N429AR 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]
1 NTSB record under N429AR: Accident on August 21, 2015 at Port O'Connor, TX: 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: 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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN15LA395 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data