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N525BN

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc 525

Valid Texas

N525BN is a Bell Helicopter Textron Inc 525, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2016. It has 16 seats. It is registered to Bell Textron INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 8, 2015 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated January 12, 2026.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc
Model
525 · all 525s and related versions
Serial number
62003
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 2 motors · Ge CT7 SERIES · 1560 hp
Seats
16
Year built
2016
Transponder code
A69BA7 (octal 51515647)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 8, 2015
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Research and development · January 12, 2026
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01190647

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bell Textron INC
Type
Corporation
Address
3255 Bell Flight Blvd
Fort Worth, TX 76118-7630

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N525BN, 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 Bell Textron INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 8, 2015, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 12, 2026, 10 years after the 2016 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 62003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N525BN according to the deregistered file. [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 N525BN. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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