Bell Textron Canada Ltd 429
N505TJ is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 429, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 9 seats. It is registered to Mercy Flight INC, a corporation in Buffalo, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- Model
- 429 · all 429s and related versions
- Serial number
- 57470
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A64E35 (octal 51447065)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 16, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- November 8, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01384156
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mercy Flight INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 100 Amherst Villa Rd
Buffalo, NY 14225-1432
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 N505TJ, 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 Mercy Flight INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 16, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57470 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N505TJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429 (serial 57029, cancelled November 3, 2022). 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 N505TJ: Accident on October 7, 2021 at Batavia, NY: 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 429 · operated under 135
The pilot’s failure to disengage the autopilot prior to climbing out of a fog bank.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA22LA007 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