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Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505
N597BH is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2024. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Bell Textron INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated March 4, 2026.
Where is it now Last seen October 14 at 4:02 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
- 65630
- 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
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A7B789 (octal 51733611)
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 20, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 4, 2026
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01490187
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 N597BH links to the rest of the register
- Bell 505 195 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 143 aircraft with this engine series · 460 hp
- Bell Textron INC 101 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to May 7, 2027
- Fort Worth, TX 1,893 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 29,986 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 N597BH is now · Last seen October 14 at 4:02 pm.
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The public federal record on N597BH, 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 February 20, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development, dated March 4, 2026, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65630 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N597BH 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 N597BH. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data