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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of September 25, 2026
N997NA

Bell TH-57

Valid Texas

N997NA 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 19, 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
3914
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor
Seats
5
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
ADEDD1 (octal 53366721)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 19, 2026
Expires
February 28, 2033
Last FAA action
June 17, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01527960

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
National Aeronautics And Space Administration
Type
Government
Address
C/O Robert Hines Johnson Space Ce
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