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Bell 205A-1
N449RC is a Bell 205A-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1973. It has 15 seats. It is registered to County of San Diego, a government body in El Cajon, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 21, 2005 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated June 15, 2005.
Where is it now Last seen October 7 at 9:33 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 205A-1 · all 205A-1s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Bell 205 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
- 30121
- 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, 1 motor · Honeywell T5317 SER · 1500 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A56D86 (octal 51266606)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 21, 2005
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; OtherFAA certificate purpose code 130 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 15, 2005
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00900313
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- County of San Diego
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1745 N Marshall Ave
El Cajon, CA 92020-1124
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 N449RC links to the rest of the register
- Bell 205 58 registered
- Bell 3,079 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Honeywell T5317 series 9 aircraft with this engine series · 1500 hp
- Type certificate H1SW · held by Bell Textron INC
- County of San Diego 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- El Cajon, CA 195 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,713 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 205 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 205 242 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 205 236 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Honeywell T5317 series 14 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Honeywell T5317 series 27 reports since 1995
- Where N449RC is now · Last seen October 7 at 9:33 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N449RC.json.
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The public federal record on N449RC, 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 County of San Diego, a government body, certificate issued June 21, 2005, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 15, 2005, 32 years after the 1973 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 30121 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N449RC 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 N449RC. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data