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A Bell 505, the same model family as N6SD
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026
N6SD

Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesUtah

N6SD is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2023. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Bank of Utah Trustee, a corporation in Salt Lake City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 28, 2023.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell Textron Canada Ltd
Model
505 · all 505s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A 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
65553
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
Seats
5
Year built
2023
Transponder code
A7C421 (octal 51742041)

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 21, 2024
Expires
February 28, 2031
Last FAA action
February 21, 2024
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 · November 28, 2023
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01416725

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bank of Utah Trustee
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
50 S 200 e Ste 110
Salt Lake City, UT 84111-1617

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 2

2023-08-14Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505 · Valid registration
2007-01-23Piper PA-28R-180 · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response

Connections how N6SD links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N6SD.json.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N6SD, 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 Bank of Utah Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued February 21, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated November 28, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65553 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6SD was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505 (serial 65414, cancelled August 14, 2023); Piper PA-28R-180 (serial 28R-31040, cancelled January 23, 2007). 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 N6SD: Accident on August 28, 2022 at Chamblee, GA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

ERA22LA390Accident on August 28, 2022 at Chamblee, GA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 65414

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell Textron Canada LTD 505 · operated under 091

The pilot’s failure to ensure that the helicopter was properly positioned over a dolly before attempting to land on it, which resulted in a rollover.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data