Bell Textron Canada Ltd 429
N717SP is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 429, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2024. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Minnesota State Patrol, a government body in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 9, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- Model
- 429 · all 429s and related versions
- Serial number
- 57515
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW207D1/D2 · 621 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A997AC (octal 52313654)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 8, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 8, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 9, 2024
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01445346
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Minnesota State Patrol
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 515 Eaton St
Saint Paul, MN 55107-2495
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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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N717SP, 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 Minnesota State Patrol, a government body, certificate issued October 8, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 9, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57515 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N717SP was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Pphu Ekolot KR-030 TOPAZ (serial 30/03/10, cancelled May 31, 2018); Cessna 172S (serial 172S8646, cancelled November 28, 2007). 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 N717SP: Accident on March 26, 2016 at Lake Dallas, TX: no 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: Pphu Ekolot KR-030 TOPAZ · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing in a crosswind, which resulted in a runway excursion and an impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA164 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