Bell 230
N974RH is a Bell 230, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1994. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Turbines LTD, a corporation in West Point, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 22, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 16, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 230 · all 230s and related versions
- Serial number
- 23020
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Allison 250-C30 SER · 650 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- AD9400 (octal 53312000)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 22, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · January 16, 2004
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00074879
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Turbines LTD
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 140 19Th Rd
West Point, NE 68788-4506
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.
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The public federal record on N974RH, 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 Turbines LTD, a corporation, certificate issued March 22, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 16, 2004, 10 years after the 1994 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 23020 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N974RH 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 N974RH: Accident on March 17, 2011 at Gulf Of Mexico, LA: 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 230 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate clearance from the safety skirting during the repositioning landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN11CA232 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