Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429
N911NM is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2010. It has 9 seats. It is registered to San Juan Regional Medical Center, a corporation in Farmington, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 11, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 12, 2011.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Air Methods LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 429 · all 429s 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 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
- 57031
- 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 PW207D · 572 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- AC9B9A (octal 53115632)
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 11, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 11, 2023
- 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 12, 2011
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01062358
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- San Juan Regional Medical Center
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 801 W Maple St
Farmington, NM 87401-5630
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.
Connections how N911NM links to the rest of the register
- Bell 429 174 registered
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 731 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Air Methods LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207D 35 aircraft with this engine series · 572 hp
- Type certificate R00003RD · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- San Juan Regional Medical Center 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Farmington, NM 84 aircraft registered in this town
- Four Corners Regional · FMN
- New Mexico 3,107 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 429 38 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 429 180 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 429 56 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207D 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207D 133 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Display, damaged · 2024-08-05
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bearing, damaged · 2016-02-22
- Report filed on this aircraft: Blade, cracked · 2013-07-29
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N911NM.json.
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The public federal record on N911NM, 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 San Juan Regional Medical Center, a corporation, certificate issued April 11, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 12, 2011, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57031 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N911NM 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 N911NM: Accident on September 3, 1992 at Bayfield, CO: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 206L3 · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND TO PROPERLY USE THE HELICOPTER'S PERFORMANCE DATA. FACTORS WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE ADVERSE TERRAIN AND HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
