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Bell Textron Canada Ltd 429
N5AZ is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 429, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2022. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Jetco LLC, an LLC in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 21, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 22, 2022.
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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
- 57468
- 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
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A63556 (octal 51432526)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 21, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- 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 22, 2022
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01376286
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jetco LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4201 Stadium Dr
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-1427
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N5AZ 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
- Jetco LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Kalamazoo, MI 119 aircraft registered in this town
- Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International · AZO
- Newmans Airport · 4N0
- Skyyharbour Seaplane Base · 11C
- Michigan 7,217 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
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N5AZ.json.
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The public federal record on N5AZ, 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 Jetco LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 21, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 22, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57468 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5AZ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-76B (serial 760313, cancelled January 31, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N5AZ: Accident on June 6, 1986 at Sutton, MA: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). Details below. [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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sikorsky S-76B · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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