Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505
N911FW 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 City Of Fort Worth, a government body in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 14, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- Model
- 505 · all 505s and related versions
- Serial number
- 65491
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Safran ARRIUS 2R · 460 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- AC9AF4 (octal 53115364)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 27, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 14, 2024
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01476352
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- City Of Fort Worth
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 200 Texas St
Fort Worth, TX 76102-6314
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N911FW, 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 City Of Fort Worth, a government body, certificate issued January 27, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 14, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65491 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N911FW according to the deregistered file. [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 N911FW: Accident on March 8, 2026 at Fort Worth, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell Textron Canada LTD 505 · operated under PUBU
On March 7, 2026, at 2210 Central daylight time, a Bell Textron 505 helicopter, N911FW, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Fort Worth, Texas. The pilot and crew member were not injured. The helicopter was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 public use flight. The pilot reported that during takeoff, as the helicopter was climbing above the trees the engine power decreased to idle power. The pilot performed a forced landing to an open grass field. The helicopter sustained substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer. A post examination of …
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data