Bell Helicopter Textron 212
N966X is a Bell Helicopter Textron 212, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Bh212966 LLC, an LLC in Crestline, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 19, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 26, 2025. 3 documents are on file: 2 × bill of sale (evidence of ownership), disclaimer.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron
- Model
- 212 · all 212s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30966
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · P & W PT6T-3B · 900 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- AD747D (octal 53272175)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 19, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 9, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · December 26, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01533529
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bh212966 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 390
Crestline, CA 92325-0390
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 3
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N966X, 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 Bh212966 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 19, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 26, 2025, 46 years after the 1979 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30966 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N966X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman G-164A (serial 480, cancelled April 30, 1979). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
3 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 10, 2026), Disclaimer (September 16, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 16, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N966X. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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