Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 505
N505GR is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2017. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Bell Textron INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 7, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 10, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 505 · all 505s and related versions
- Serial number
- 65011
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIUS 2R · 505 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A64D29 (octal 51446451)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 7, 2017
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 10, 2017
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01257397
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bell Textron INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3255 Bell Flight Blvd
Fort Worth, TX 76118-7630
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N505GR, 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 Bell Textron INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 7, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 10, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65011 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N505GR 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]
1 NTSB record under N505GR: Accident on August 27, 2025 at Fort Worth, TX: 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: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 505 · operated under 091
The manufacturer flight instructor’s failure to maintain proper airspeed and a proper descent rate during a demonstrated hover out of ground effect (HOGE) autorotation, which resulted in a hard landing. Contributing to the accident was the manufacturer flight instructor’s failure to perform corrective action during the HOGE autorotation with a power recovery in a timely manner.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA381 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data