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Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505
N9289U is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Topton, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 28, 2025.
Where is it now Last seen October 30 at 12:32 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- Model
- 505 · all 505s 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 505 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
- 65631
- 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, 1 motor · Safran ARRIUS 2R · 460 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- ACDF88 (octal 53157610)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 28, 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 · April 28, 2025
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01486697
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ufkes Philip J
- 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
- 175 Owenby Rd
Topton, NC 28781-7313
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 N9289U links to the rest of the register
- Bell 505 195 registered
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd 434 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Safran ARRIUS 2R 143 aircraft with this engine series · 460 hp
- Topton, NC 2 aircraft registered in this town
- North Carolina 7,130 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 505 22 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 505 29 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 505 33 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Safran ARRIUS 2R 7 airworthiness directives
- Where N9289U is now · Last seen October 30 at 12:32 pm.
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The public federal record on N9289U, 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 Ufkes Philip J, an individual, certificate issued March 28, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 28, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65631 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9289U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150M (serial 15078239, cancelled March 18, 2013). 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]
1 NTSB record under N9289U: Accident on September 28, 1995 at Rutland, VT: 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150M · operated under 091
the loss of engine power for an undetermined reason.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data