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N430ST

Bell 430

N430ST is a Bell 430, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 10 seats. It is registered to High Performance Helicopters CORP, a corporation in Crestline, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 26, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 30, 2000. 2 documents are on file: disclaimer, bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
430 · all 430s and related versions
Serial number
49071
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 2 motors · Allison 250 SERIES · 300 hp
Seats
10
Year built
2000
Transponder code
A524C0 (octal 51222300)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 26, 2024
Expires
September 30, 2031
Last FAA action
October 16, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · September 30, 2000
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00493615

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
High Performance Helicopters CORP
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 390
Crestline, CA 92325-0390

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 2

2026-09-16Disclaimer
2026-09-16Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N430ST, 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 High Performance Helicopters CORP, a corporation, certificate issued September 26, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated September 30, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 49071 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N430ST according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

2 documents received recently: Disclaimer (September 16, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 16, 2026). [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N430ST: Accident on October 27, 2018 at Kailua, HI: 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

WPR19LA028Accident on October 27, 2018 at Kailua, HI: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 430 · operated under 135

The separation of one of the tail rotors blades’ root enclosures due to improper repair.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR19LA028 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data