Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505
N505EX is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2023. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Quail Aviation LLC, an LLC in Yuma, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 21, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 13, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- Model
- 505 · all 505s and related versions
- Serial number
- 65517
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Safran ARRIUS 2R · 460 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A64CFD (octal 51446375)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 21, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 13, 2023
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01422782
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Quail Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5328 E View Pkwy
Yuma, AZ 85365-0063
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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N505EX, 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 Quail Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 21, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 13, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65517 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N505EX was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Extra Flugzeugbau Gmbh EA 300/L (serial 1211, cancelled August 26, 2014). 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 N505EX: Accident on November 28, 2008 at Tampa, FL: minor 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: Extra Flugzeugbau GMBH EA 300/L · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate visual lookout, which resulted in a collision with an object.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA09CA073 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