Del 05 Aug 2022 Test Registration as C-GHES

This factory new Bell 505 (msn 65544) was displayed at the Vertical Flight Society's 80th Annual Forum held at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, Quebec. Bell started transferring its commercial helicopter production from Fort Worth, Texas to a new factory in Mirabel, Quebec in 1986 starting with the 206B JetRanger final assembly and followed by the Bell 206L3 LongRanger, Model 212 and Model 412 with later models (230, 430, 407, 427, 429 and 505) all making their first flights in Canada. Mirabel now builds the 505, 407, 429 and 412EPX, but the new Bell 525 will be assembled in Amarillo, TX.

Visiting from its Abbotsford (CYXX) base is this 2019 built Jetranger X operated by Chinook Helicopters.

First registered in the UK in December 2022

An exclusive view of the newest member of the Ecuadorian National Police!!! A Bell 505, delivered just days before this picture, resting at its hangar at Guayaquil Airport. During my last trip of 2023 I came across this beauty and now this one has a sticker of the Ecuadorian National Police. A special thanks to all the police friends at GYE who made this possible. Ex- N505TL.

One of Bell's 505 JetRanger X demonstrators is pictured on the same day the company made the first customer delivery of the type at HAI Heli-Expo 2017. The helicopter was transferred to Bell in the USA registered N505TZ in July 2017.

The fourth of Bell's pastel prototypes for their new single engine design is the third flight test vehicle. C-FTVQ was registered June 2015 and retired in 2021, the registration cancelled September 23, 2021. The second Bell 525 Relentless is packing up in the background.

Brand new Bell 505 for the South Korean Army ready for a test flight with KAI from Sacheon. The South Korean Army and Navy ordered 40 Bell 505s, the first three of which were delivered in November 2023.