{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1997-04-23","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1997-03-12","city":"RANKIN","country_code":"US","county_code":"461","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"59050","engine_horsepower":400,"engine_maker":"SUBARU","engine_model":"ALL MDLS A/B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-09","maker":"Bell Cody Jr","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL CODY JR","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05604HE","mode_s_code":"52324745","mode_s_hex":"A9A9E5","model":"RAF 2000","n_number":"N7212D","name":"BELL CODY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N7212D is a Bell Cody Jr RAF 2000, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rankin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 1997 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 23, 1997.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bell Cody, an individual, certificate issued March 12, 1997, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 23, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1997001 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N7212D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-150 (serial 22-5036, cancelled September 23, 1974). 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 N7212D. 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"1997001","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 22","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00606411","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N7212D","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1997,"zip":"797780022"}