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A Bell 205, the same model family as N99WL
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026
N99WL

Bell 205A-1

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMontana
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N99WL is a Bell 205A-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1970. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Corpat INC, a corporation in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 4, 2022 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 15, 2014.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Heli-1 Corporation, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
205A-1 · all 205A-1s 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 205 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
30086
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 · Honeywell T5317A · 1500 hp
Seats
15
Year built
1970
Cruising speed
103 mph
Transponder code
ADD249 (octal 53351111)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
May 4, 2022
Expires
May 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 4, 2023
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 · May 15, 2014
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01143486

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Corpat INC
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
PO Box 16210
Missoula, MT 59808-6210
Charter N99WL with Heli-1 Corporation:
Website

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

2014-12-01Lynch BEDE 4 · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Connections how N99WL links to the rest of the register

Design
  • Bell 205 58 registered
  • Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
  • Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
Flies for
Engine
  • Honeywell T5317A 11 aircraft with this engine series · 1500 hp
  • Type certificate H1SW · held by Bell Textron INC
Owner
Place
Record
Airworthiness
Analytics
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The public federal record on N99WL, 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 Corpat INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 4, 2022, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 15, 2014, 44 years after the 1970 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30086 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N99WL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lynch BEDE 4 (serial 212, cancelled December 1, 2014). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N99WL. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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.

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data