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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- Model
- 505 · all 505s and related versions
- Serial number
- 65631
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Safran ARRIUS 2R · 460 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- ACDF88 (octal 53157610)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 28, 2025
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01486697
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ufkes Philip J
- Type
- Individual
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150M · operated under 091
the loss of engine power for an undetermined reason.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC95LA228 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data