Bell Textron Inc 525
N5257 is a Bell Textron Inc 525, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 18 seats. It is registered to Bell Textron INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Inc
- Model
- 525 · all 525s and related versions
- Serial number
- 62017
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors
- Seats
- 18
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A69ECE (octal 51517316)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 23, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 23, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01502721
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bell Textron INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3255 Bell Flight Blvd
Fort Worth, TX 76118
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 N5257, 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 23, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. 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 62017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5257 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman G-164A (serial 541, cancelled December 12, 1990). 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 N5257: Accident on June 12, 1990 at Fisher, AR: no injuries, destroyed. 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: Grumman G-164A · operated under 137
PARTIAL LOSS OF ENGINE POWER FOR AN UNDETERMINED REASON.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC90LA126 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