Bell TH-57
N501NS is a Bell TH-57, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 5 seats. It is registered to National Aeronautics And Space Administration, a government body in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 22, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- TH-57
- Serial number
- 3829
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A63EE4 (octal 51437344)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 22, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 17, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01521504
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- National Aeronautics And Space Administration
- Type
- Government
- Address
- C/O Robert Hines Johnson Space Cn
2101 NASA Pkwy # Cc1
Houston, TX 77058-3607
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