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Bell 205A-1
N549RL is a Bell 205A-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 15 seats. It is registered to Aircraft Trustee Services INC Trustee, a corporation in Dover, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 5, 2015.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 205A-1 · all 205A-1s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Bell 205 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
- 30215
- 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, 1 motor · Honeywell T5317A · 1500 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A6FADD (octal 51575335)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 16, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2026
- 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 5, 2015
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01112131
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aircraft Trustee Services INC Trustee
- 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
- 3500 S Dupont Hwy
Dover, DE 19901-6041
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.
Connections how N549RL links to the rest of the register
- Bell 205 58 registered
- Bell 3,087 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Honeywell T5317A 11 aircraft with this engine series · 1500 hp
- Type certificate H1SW · held by Bell Textron INC
- Aircraft Trustee Services INC Trustee 52 aircraft in the fleet
- Dover, DE 1,036 aircraft registered in this town
- Dover Air Force Base · DOV
- Chandelle Airport · 0N4
- Deldot Helistop · 0N5
- Delaware 10,954 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 205 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 205 242 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 205 236 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Honeywell T5317A 12 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N549RL, 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 Aircraft Trustee Services INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued June 16, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30215 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N549RL according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N549RL. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 22, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 22, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 22, 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 22, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data