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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.
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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
- 30030
- 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 · P&W Canada PT6C-67D · 1680 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A6430F (octal 51441417)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 18, 2005
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Market surveyFAA certificate purpose code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 11, 2020
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00165109
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Temsco Helicopters INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N502TH links to the rest of the register
- Bell 205 58 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6C-67D 1 aircraft with this engine series · 1680 hp
- Type certificate H1SW · held by Bell Textron INC
- Temsco Helicopters INC 41 aircraft in the fleet
- Ketchikan, AK 118 aircraft registered in this town
- Ketchikan International · KTN
- Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base · 5KE
- Murphys Pullout Seaplane Base · 8K9
- Peninsula Point Pullout Seaplane Base · 9C0
- Alaska 9,141 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
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6C-67D 8 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N502TH.json.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data