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N442LN

Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 505

Valid Texas

N442LN is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2019. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lubbock, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 8, 2019.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
Model
505 · all 505s and related versions
Serial number
65265
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Safran ARRIUS 2R · 460 hp
Seats
5
Year built
2019
Transponder code
A55312 (octal 51251422)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 29, 2023
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
May 22, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · August 8, 2019
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01299062

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mead Zane
Type
Individual
Address
4910 120Th St Unit 4
Lubbock, TX 79424-8485

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N442LN, 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 Mead Zane, an individual, certificate issued March 29, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated August 8, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65265 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N442LN according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N442LN. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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