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Bell Textron Canada Ltd 429
N556BH is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 429, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Bell Textron INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 21, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- Model
- 429 · all 429s 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 429 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
- 57556
- 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 PW207D1/D2 · 621 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A715D6 (octal 51612726)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 20, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 20, 2025
- 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 21, 2025
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01528479
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bell Textron INC
- 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
- 3255 Bell Flight Blvd
Fort Worth, TX 76118
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N556BH links to the rest of the register
- Bell 429 174 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
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207D1/D2 125 aircraft with this engine series · 621 hp
- Type certificate R00003RD · held by Bell Textron Canada LTD
- Bell Textron INC 95 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to May 7, 2027
- Fort Worth, TX 1,880 aircraft registered in this town
- Fort Worth Meacham International · FTW
- Fort Worth Spinks Airport · FWS
- Perot Fld/Fort Worth Alliance Airport · AFW
- Bourland Field · 50F
- 3 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 429 38 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 429 180 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 429 56 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207D1/D2 1 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N556BH, 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 November 20, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 21, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57556 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N556BH 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 N556BH. 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