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N5AZ

Bell Textron Canada Ltd 429

Valid Michigan

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell Textron Canada Ltd
Model
429 · all 429s and related versions
Serial number
57468
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW207D1/D2 · 621 hp
Seats
9
Year built
2022
Transponder code
A63556 (octal 51432526)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 21, 2022
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 22, 2022
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01376286

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Jetco LLC
Type
LLC
Address
4201 Stadium Dr
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-1427

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

2013-01-31Sikorsky S-76B · Sale reported, pending cancellation

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Jetco LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 21, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 22, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57468 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

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]

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5AZ: Accident on June 6, 1986 at Sutton, MA: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

NYC86MA148Accident on June 6, 1986 at Sutton, MA: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 760313

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sikorsky S-76B · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC86MA148 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data