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A Bell 429, the same model family as N905WM
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N905WM

Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesWyoming

N905WM is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 9 seats. It is registered to Valiair Lc Trustee, an LLC in Casper, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 21, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 15, 2018.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
Model
429 · all 429s 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 429 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
57347
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 · P&W Canada PW207D1/D2 · 621 hp
Seats
9
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AC83BF (octal 53101677)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
April 21, 2025
Expires
April 30, 2032
Last FAA action
April 21, 2025
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 · August 15, 2018
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01280788

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Valiair Lc Trustee
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
330 S Center St Ste 300
Casper, WY 82601-2873

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N905WM links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N905WM, 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 Valiair Lc Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued April 21, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57347 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N905WM 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 N905WM. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data