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N787JB

Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505

Valid Michigan

N787JB is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2024. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Pratt Group Leasing LLC, an LLC in Niles, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 13, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell Textron Canada Ltd
Model
505 · all 505s and related versions
Serial number
65499
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Safran ARRIUS 2R · 460 hp
Seats
5
Year built
2024
Transponder code
AAAB51 (octal 52525521)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 21, 2025
Expires
December 31, 2032
Last FAA action
December 21, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · November 13, 2024
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01474765

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Pratt Group Leasing LLC
Type
LLC
Address
2352 Bond St
Niles, MI 49120-4046

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N787JB, 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 Pratt Group Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 21, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated November 13, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65499 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N787JB according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N787JB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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