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N130PL

Bell TH-57

Valid Iowa

N130PL is a Bell TH-57, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1985. It has 5 seats. It is registered to State University Of Iowa, a government body in Iowa City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated August 20, 2025.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
TH-57
Serial number
163345
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20J · 420 hp
Seats
5
Year built
1985
Transponder code
A07C81 (octal 50076201)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 10, 2024
Expires
May 31, 2031
Last FAA action
May 10, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · August 20, 2025
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01444121

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
State University Of Iowa
Type
Government
Address
Operator Perf Lab Hgr H
1801 S Riverside Dr
Iowa City, IA 52246-5704

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.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data