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N281SD

Bell 212

N281SD is a Bell 212, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1980. It has 15 seats. It is registered to City Of San Diego, a government body in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 29, 2005 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 17, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
212
Serial number
31147
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6T-3 SERIES · 900 hp
Seats
15
Year built
1980
Cruising speed
103 mph
Transponder code
A2D346 (octal 50551506)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 29, 2005
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · June 17, 2005
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00355031

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
City Of San Diego
Type
Government
Address
202 C St
San Diego, CA 92101-4806
Co-owners
Fire Rescue Dept

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