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N853QA

Bell 212

Valid Illinois

N853QA is a Bell 212, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1977. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Heli-Consignment INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 29, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 2, 2020.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
212
Serial number
30815
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6T-3 SERIES · 900 hp
Seats
15
Year built
1977
Cruising speed
103 mph
Transponder code
ABB3DC (octal 52731734)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 29, 2020
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
February 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · August 2, 2020
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00524861

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Heli-Consignment INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1169 S Plymouth Ct Apt 308
Chicago, IL 60605-2056

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