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Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429
N579BT is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). 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 October 26, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 4:19 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- 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
- 57579
- 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
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A77003 (octal 51670003)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 26, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01169040
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
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 1
Connections how N579BT links to the rest of the register
- Bell 429 174 registered
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 731 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate R00003RD · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Bell Textron INC 96 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to May 7, 2027
- Fort Worth, TX 1,887 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 29,945 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
- Where N579BT is now · Last seen Thursday at 4:19 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N579BT.json.
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The public federal record on N579BT, 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 October 26, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57579 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N579BT according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 23, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N579BT. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data