Bell 205A-1
N32240 is a Bell 205A-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1981. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Ventura County Sheriffs Department, a government body in Camarillo, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 12, 2000 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated March 31, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 205A-1
- Serial number
- 30012
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming T53-L-13 · 1400 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A378BB (octal 50674273)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 12, 2000
- Expires
- January 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · March 31, 1981
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00150136
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ventura County Sheriffs Department
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 375 Durley Ave Ste A
Camarillo, CA 93010-8528
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data