{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"","country_code":"","county_code":"","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-08-13","maker":"Bell Textron Canada Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL TEXTRON CANADA LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182166","mode_s_code":"50415175","mode_s_hex":"A21A7D","model":"505","n_number":"N23451","name":"","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N23451 is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 5 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The FAA lists the registration as \"n-number assigned as an import, not yet registered\". No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"N-number assigned as an import, not yet registered\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65780 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N23451 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Boeing 737-300 (serial 23451, cancelled December 17, 2010); Cessna 150H (serial 15068955, cancelled August 22, 1973); Piper J3F-50 (serial 3173, cancelled June 15, 1951). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N23451. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"","registrant_type_code":"","seats":5,"serial_number":"65780","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"","status":"N-number assigned as an import, not yet registered","status_code":"4","status_short":"Assigned, not yet registered","street":"","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01571949","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N23451","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":""}