Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429
N917PD is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2013. It has 9 seats. It is registered to New York City Police Department, a government body in Brooklyn, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 1, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 9, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 429 · all 429s and related versions
- Serial number
- 57148
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW207D1/D2 · 621 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- ACB1F5 (octal 53130765)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 1, 2014
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 9, 2014
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01135917
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- New York City Police Department
- Type
- Government
- Address
- Floyd Bennett Field (Ny22)
Brooklyn, NY 11234
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N917PD, 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 New York City Police Department, a government body, certificate issued August 1, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 9, 2014, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57148 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N917PD 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 N917PD: Accident on September 1, 2016 at Rikers Island, NY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429 · operated under PUBU
The pilot’s overcontrolling of the helicopter during an aborted slope landing from a hover, which resulted in a main rotor blade strike.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA16CA313 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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