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Bell 430
N430DW is a Bell 430, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2001. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Gear Aviation LLC, an LLC in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 31, 2001.
Where is it now Last seen October 8 at 1:43 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 430 · all 430s 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 430 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
- 49079
- 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 · Rolls-Royc 250-C40B · 715 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A5237E (octal 51221576)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 14, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 12, 2024
- 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 31, 2001
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00693734
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gear Aviation 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
- PO Box 7967
Missoula, MT 59807-7967
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 N430DW links to the rest of the register
- Bell 430 30 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rolls-Royce 250-C40B 19 aircraft with this engine series · 715 hp
- Type certificate H9SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron
- Gear Aviation LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Missoula, MT 761 aircraft registered in this town
- Missoula Montana Airport · MSO
- Montana 6,041 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 430 33 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 430 392 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 430 54 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce 250-C40B 5 airworthiness directives
- Where N430DW is now · Last seen October 8 at 1:43 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N430DW.json.
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The public federal record on N430DW, 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 Gear Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 14, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated May 31, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 49079 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N430DW 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 N430DW. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data