Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505
N945TC 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 Cae USA INC, a corporation in Tampa, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 28, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 29, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- Model
- 505 · all 505s and related versions
- Serial number
- 65573
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Safran ARRIUS 2R · 460 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- AD2167 (octal 53220547)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 28, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 29, 2024
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01446770
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cae USA INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4908 Tampa West Blvd
Tampa, FL 33634-2411
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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 N945TC, 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 Cae USA INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 28, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 29, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65573 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N945TC 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 N945TC: Accident on August 23, 2024 at Marianna, FL: 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 Textron Canada LTD 505 · operated under 091
The student pilot’s failure to maintain rotor rpm during a simulated autorotation, which allowed for a resonance phenomenon to develop. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor’s inadequate monitoring of the student pilot’s collective control inputs.
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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