Bell 205A-1
N502TH is a Bell 205A-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1969. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Temsco Helicopters INC, a corporation in Ketchikan, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2005 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for market survey, dated February 11, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 205A-1 · all 205A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30030
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6C-67D · 1680 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A6430F (octal 51441417)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 18, 2005
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Market survey · February 11, 2020
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00165109
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Temsco Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 5057
Ketchikan, AK 99901-0057
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N502TH, 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 Temsco Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 18, 2005, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 11, 2020, 51 years after the 1969 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 30030 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N502TH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 0846, cancelled January 6, 1993). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N502TH: Accident on October 30, 1991 at Millville, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Robinson R22B · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE HELICOPTER. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE PILOT'S IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC92LA021 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