{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2010-04-28","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2010-02-03","city":"FORT WORTH","country_code":"US","county_code":"439","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52156","engine_horsepower":572,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"PW207D","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-15","maker":"Bell Helicopter Textron Canada","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182158","mode_s_code":"51217073","mode_s_hex":"A51E3B","model":"429","n_number":"N429NA","name":"BELL TEXTRON INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"WALLOPS ISLAND","damage":"MINR","date":"1990-11-01","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"BFO91T#001","probable_cause":null,"registration":"N429NA","state":"VA","summary":"Incident on November 1, 1990 at Wallops Island, VA: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N429NA is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2010. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Bell Textron INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 3, 2010 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated April 28, 2010.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bell Textron INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 3, 2010, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for research and development, dated April 28, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57009 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N429NA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed 188C (serial 1103, cancelled November 3, 2006). 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":"1 NTSB record under N429NA: Incident on November 1, 1990 at Wallops Island, VA: no injuries, minor damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":9,"serial_number":"57009","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3255 BELL FLIGHT BLVD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01045951","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N429NA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2010,"zip":"761187630"}