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Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505
N552CP is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. It has 5 seats. It is registered to City of Columbus Ohio, a government body in Columbus, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 19, 2025.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 8:55 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- Model
- 505 · all 505s 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 505 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
- 65661
- 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 · Safran ARRIUS 2R · 460 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A70719 (octal 51603431)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 7, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 7, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 19, 2025
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01516628
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- City of Columbus Ohio
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 77 N Front St Fl 5Th
Columbus, OH 43215-1895
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 N552CP links to the rest of the register
- Bell 505 194 registered
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd 434 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Safran ARRIUS 2R 144 aircraft with this engine series · 460 hp
- City of Columbus Ohio 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Columbus, OH 280 aircraft registered in this town
- Bolton Field · TZR
- John Glenn Columbus International · CMH
- Ohio State University Airport · OSU
- Rickenbacker International · LCK
- Ohio 8,533 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 505 22 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 505 29 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 505 33 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Safran ARRIUS 2R 7 airworthiness directives
- Where N552CP is now · Last seen yesterday at 8:55 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N552CP.json.
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The public federal record on N552CP, 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 Columbus Ohio, a government body, certificate issued February 7, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 19, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65661 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N552CP 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 N552CP. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data