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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Bell TH-57
N992EC is a Bell TH-57, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 5 seats. It is registered to Etowah County Sheriffs Office, a government body in Gadsden, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- TH-57 · all TH-57s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Bell TH-57 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
- 3694
- 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, 1 motor
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ADDA78 (octal 53355170)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 18, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 18, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01550148
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Etowah County Sheriffs Office
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 827 Forrest Ave
Gadsden, AL 35901-3610
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.
Connections how N992EC links to the rest of the register
- Bell TH-57 23 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Etowah County Sheriffs Office 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Gadsden, AL 29 aircraft registered in this town
- Northeast Alabama Regional · GAD
- Alabama 4,325 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Bell TH-57 8 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N992EC.json.
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The public federal record on N992EC, 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 Etowah County Sheriffs Office, a government body, certificate issued June 18, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3694 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N992EC 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N992EC. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data