Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505
N5DF is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2021. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Dwf Heli LLC, an LLC in Orient, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 30, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 14, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- Model
- 505 · all 505s and related versions
- Serial number
- 65340
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Safran ARRIUS 2R · 460 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A6358F (octal 51432617)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 30, 2021
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 14, 2021
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01340703
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dwf Heli LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 35675 Main Rd
Orient, NY 11957-1159
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5DF, 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 Dwf Heli LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 30, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 14, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65340 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5DF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Knight Twister RACER 1 (serial PD-1, cancelled December 18, 2012). 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 N5DF: Accident on October 8, 2022 at Fort Myers, FL: serious injuries, substantial damage. 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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell Textron Canada LTD 505 · operated under 091
The pilot’s execution of a landing approach with a right, quartering tailwind, low forward airspeed, and high power demand that, when combined, resulted in a loss of tail rotor effectiveness and helicopter control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA23LA011 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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