Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429
N438AS 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 West States Leasing INC, a corporation in Medford, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 25, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 17, 2017. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 429 · all 429s and related versions
- Serial number
- 57021
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW207D · 572 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A540E7 (octal 51240347)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 25, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 8, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 17, 2017
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01060587
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- West States Leasing INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2040 Milligan Way
Medford, OR 97504-6015
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 4 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N438AS, 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 West States Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 25, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 17, 2017, 7 years after the 2010 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57021 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N438AS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Schleicher ASW-19 (serial 19230, cancelled January 4, 2018). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 28, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N438AS: Accident on August 25, 2012 at Dansville, NY: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Schleicher ASW-19 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain glider control while maneuvering. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s impairment due to an over-the-counter sedating antihistamine.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA12LA528 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
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