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Bell 430
N810SP is a Bell 430, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2004. It has 10 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bakersfield, California. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 19, 2004.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 430 · all 430s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Bell 430 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
- 49099
- 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, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc 250-C40B · 715 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- AB0AFA (octal 52605372)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reportedFAA registration status code 7 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 20, 2026
- 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 19, 2004
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00117009
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 136 Spottswoode Ln
Bakersfield, CA 93314-8378
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
Connections how N810SP links to the rest of the register
- Bell 430 30 registered
- Bell 3,079 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rolls-Royce 250-C40B 19 aircraft with this engine series · 715 hp
- Type certificate H9SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron
- Bakersfield, CA 372 aircraft registered in this town
- Meadows Field · BFL
- Bakersfield Municipal · L45
- California 27,673 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 430 33 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 430 392 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 430 54 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce 250-C40B 5 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N810SP, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated October 19, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 49099 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N810SP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172S (serial 172S8113, cancelled June 19, 2001). 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 N810SP. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data