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Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429
N429TX is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 9 seats. It is registered to Textron INC, a corporation in Warwick, Rhode Island. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 8, 2011 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 20, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 429 · all 429s 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. 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
- 57018
- 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 PW207D · 572 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A51ECD (octal 51217315)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 8, 2011
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 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 · October 20, 2010
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01058045
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Textron INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 566 Airport Rd
Warwick, RI 02886-2422
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 N429TX links to the rest of the register
- Bell 429 174 registered
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 732 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 PW207D 35 aircraft with this engine series · 572 hp
- Type certificate R00003RD · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Textron INC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Warwick, RI 36 aircraft registered in this town
- Rhode Island 363 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 429 38 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 429 180 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 429 56 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207D 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207D 133 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N429TX.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N429TX, 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 Textron INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 8, 2011, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57018 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N429TX 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N429TX. 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