Bell 412EP
N681FD is a Bell 412EP, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 15 seats. It is registered to Chicago Fire Dept, a government body in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 14, 2022 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 26, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 412EP · all 412EPs and related versions
- Serial number
- 36438
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6T-3DF · 900 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A9076F (octal 52203557)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 14, 2022
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · May 26, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00353019
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chicago Fire Dept
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 3954 E Foreman Dr
Chicago, IL 60617-6551
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.
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The public federal record on N681FD, 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 Chicago Fire Dept, a government body, certificate issued October 14, 2022, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36438 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N681FD 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]
1 NTSB record under N681FD: Accident on June 30, 2006 at Chicago, IL: minor 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 UH-1H · operated under PUBU
The in-flight separation of a tail rotor driveshaft hanger bearing due to inadequate maintenance performed by maintenance personnel. Contributing to the accident was the inability to maintain directional control due to the lack of tail rotor thrust.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI06GA174 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data