Bell Cody Jr RAF 2000
N7212D is a Bell Cody Jr RAF 2000, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rankin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 1997 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 23, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Cody Jr
- Model
- RAF 2000
- Serial number
- 1997001
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Subaru ALL MDLS A/B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A9A9E5 (octal 52324745)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 12, 1997
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 23, 1997
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00606411
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bell Cody
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 22
Rankin, TX 79778-0022
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N7212D, 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 Bell Cody, an individual, certificate issued March 12, 1997, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 23, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1997001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7212D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-150 (serial 22-5036, cancelled September 23, 1974). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N7212D. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data