Bell 427
N50RP is a Bell 427, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Penske CORP, a corporation in New Castle, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 1, 2011 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 30, 2000.
Where is it now Last seen October 11 at 6:36 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 427 · all 427s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Bell 427 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
- 56008
- 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, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW207D · 572 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A6391C (octal 51434434)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 1, 2011
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- 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 · November 30, 2000
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00733607
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Penske CORP
- 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
- 162 Old Churchmans Rd
New Castle, DE 19720-3116 - Co-owners
- Penske Jet INC
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
Connections how N50RP links to the rest of the register
- Bell 427 13 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207D 35 aircraft with this engine series · 572 hp
- Type certificate R00001RC · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Penske CORP 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- New Castle, DE 206 aircraft registered in this town
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 427 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 427 77 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 427 31 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207D 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207D 133 reports since 1995
- Where N50RP is now · Last seen October 11 at 6:36 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N50RP.json.
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The public federal record on N50RP, 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 Penske CORP, a corporation, certificate issued December 1, 2011, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 30, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 56008 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N50RP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 65-A90 (serial LJ-200, cancelled January 7, 2005). 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 N50RP: Incident on September 21, 1983 at Boston, MA: no injuries, minor 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: De Havilland DHC-6 · operated under 135
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data