Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429
N429NA is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2010. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Bell Textron INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 3, 2010 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated April 28, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 429 · all 429s and related versions
- Serial number
- 57009
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW207D · 572 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A51E3B (octal 51217073)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 3, 2010
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · April 28, 2010
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01045951
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bell Textron INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3255 Bell Flight Blvd
Fort Worth, TX 76118-7630
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N429NA, 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 Bell Textron INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 3, 2010, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development, dated April 28, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N429NA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed 188C (serial 1103, cancelled November 3, 2006). 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 N429NA: Incident on November 1, 1990 at Wallops Island, VA: no injuries, minor 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: Lockheed 188C · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO91T#001 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