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A Bell 505, the same model family as N505MD
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N505MD

Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida
Records check, free: 1 to understand, 4 clearWhere is it now

N505MD is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2022. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Cae USA INC, a corporation in Tampa, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 10, 2022.

Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 11:03 am.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell Textron Canada Ltd
Model
505 · all 505s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Bell 505 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
65405
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 · Safran ARRIUS 2R · 460 hp
Seats
5
Year built
2022
Transponder code
A64D9A (octal 51446632)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 20, 2023
Expires
November 30, 2030
Last FAA action
May 3, 2024
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 10, 2022
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01361890

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cae USA 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
5010 Air Cargo Rd
Tampa, FL 33614

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

2013-09-25Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82(MD-82) · N-number assigned but not yet registered

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N505MD, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Cae USA INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 20, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated June 10, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65405 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N505MD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82(MD-82) (serial 49149, cancelled September 25, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N505MD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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.

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data