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A Bell 230, the same model family as N982RH
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026
N982RH

Bell 230

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNebraska

N982RH is a Bell 230, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1993. 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 25, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 4, 1993.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
230 · all 230s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Bell 230 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
23009
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, 2 motors · Allison 250-C30 SER · 650 hp
Seats
11
Year built
1993
Transponder code
ADB411 (octal 53332021)

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 25, 2025
Expires
March 31, 2032
Last FAA action
March 25, 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 4, 1993
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00004802

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Turbines LTD
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
140 19Th Rd
West Point, NE 68788-4506

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N982RH links to the rest of the register

Design
  • Bell 230 13 registered
  • Bell 3,081 aircraft on the register
  • Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
Engine
Owner
  • Turbines LTD 21 aircraft in the fleet
  • Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to June 2, 2027
Place
  • West Point, NE 28 aircraft registered in this town
  • Nebraska 2,946 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N982RH, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Turbines LTD, a corporation, certificate issued March 25, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated June 4, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N982RH according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N982RH. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data