Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505
N50MC is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 5 seats. It is registered to City Of New Orleans, a government body in New Orleans, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. 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
- 505 · all 505s and related versions
- Serial number
- 65443
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A638AD (octal 51434255)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 18, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01382335
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- City Of New Orleans
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 2100 Leon C Simon Dr
New Orleans, LA 70122-3548
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N50MC, 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 City Of New Orleans, a government body, certificate issued March 18, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. 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 65443 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N50MC was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell Textron Canada Ltd 407 (serial 65443, cancelled November 7, 2022); Cessna P210N (serial P21000044, cancelled July 7, 2017). 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]
2 NTSB records under N50MC: Accident on March 20, 2011 at Daggett, CA: fatal, substantial damage (3 fatal). Accident on February 28, 2004 at Grape Creek, TX: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna P210 · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to conduct the flight into a region of reported moderate to severe turbulence and icing conditions, followed by a loss of airplane control and an aerodynamic spin from which the pilot did not recover.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR11FA173 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna T210M · operated under 091
The pilot's improper in-flight planning, which resulted in a loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion. A factor was the lack of suitable terrain available for the forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW04CA084 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