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N32240

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

—Piper PA-28R-200 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

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