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A Bell 505, the same model family as N559CP
A Bell 505 like this one, not N559CP itself. Photo: antoine alacusos, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Pictures of N559CP itself may be on Planespotters · JetPhotos · Airliners.net. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026
N559CP

Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesOhio
Records check, free: 1 to understand, 4 clearWhere is it now

N559CP is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). 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. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell Textron Canada Ltd
Model
505 · all 505s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A 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
65666
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
Seats
5
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A7211A (octal 51620432)

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
None on file
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01519659

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

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N559CP links to the rest of the register

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N559CP, 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 City of Columbus Ohio, a government body, certificate issued February 7, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65666 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N559CP 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 N559CP. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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.

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data