{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2017-07-10","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-07-07","city":"FORT WORTH","country_code":"US","county_code":"439","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"60085","engine_horsepower":505,"engine_maker":"TURBOMECA","engine_model":"ARRIUS 2R","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-21","maker":"Bell Helicopter Textron Canada","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182165","mode_s_code":"51446451","mode_s_hex":"A64D29","model":"505","n_number":"N505GR","name":"BELL TEXTRON INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Fort Worth","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-08-27","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN25LA381","probable_cause":"The manufacturer flight instructor\u2019s failure to maintain proper airspeed and a proper descent rate during a demonstrated hover out of ground effect (HOGE) autorotation, which resulted in a hard landing. Contributing to the accident was the manufacturer flight instructor\u2019s failure to perform corrective action during the HOGE autorotation with a power recovery in a timely manner.","registration":"N505GR","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on August 27, 2025 at Fort Worth, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N505GR is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 505, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2017. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Bell Textron INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 7, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 10, 2017.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bell Textron INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 7, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated July 10, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65011 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N505GR according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N505GR: Accident on August 27, 2025 at Fort Worth, TX: no injuries, substantial 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":5,"serial_number":"65011","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":"01257397","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N505GR","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2017,"zip":"761187630"}