Bell 222 - Angels and Demons - UNKNOWN

Angels and Demons movie (2009) - UNKNOWN

Unidentified Bell 222 Wearing the 430 Tail Registration

Unidentified Bell 222 Wearing the 430 Tail Registration

Unidentified Bell 222 Wearing the 430 Tail Registration

My moneys on N22BV tbh... from all the 222's i have seen thus far
The BOOK  Angels and Demons (AKA Da Vinci Code 2) was written in / was released in 2000

at that time (in 2000) the Italian Air Ambulances were
C/N 49023 belonging to a Bell 430 with the tail number (registration) I-FREF
and they also had...
C/N 49025 also belonging to a Bell 430 with the tail number (registration) I-FREG

both of these helicopters are the Bell 430 UT,  they clearly have landing Skids rather than Retractable Wheels, and if you google the serials they have always been 430 "UT", they've never had retracts.. not at this stage anyway (last seen 2015 and still a UT).

I-FREG moved from Italy back to the USA in 2005 and was re-registered as N430SL in America until 2015 when it moved to Canada and was given the tail number C-GNHX

Now the film adaptation of the book came out in 2009 (the 430 no longer had the I-FREG registration in 2009 as it clearly gave that up in 2005) but even if it did, you couldn't really have an air ambulance stuck on a film set for 5 to 7 hours for a simple 30 second scene. oooo how the industry spends a whole day for 30 seconds of footage lmao..

This is the REAL I-FREG helicopter (2000-2005)  C/N 49025  A Bell 430 UT (with Skids) This is clearly what Dan Brown the writer would have based the helicopter on in 1999/2000 while writing the Book...

Bell 430 IN ITALY (c) Liotti

This is it in America later registered as N430SL

Bell 430 IN AMERICA (c) BERNARDI & Gianfilippo COLASANTO

This is it in Canada even later.. ready to be registered as C-GNHX

Bell 430 IN CANADA (c) Don Hewlins

Now your probably thinking.. just wtf does all this have to do with a Bell 222 ?
Well... The film director in 2009 Ron Howard, (thats 9 years after the book was written, maybe even 10 depending on when writing started.. ) But the director or someone else on the production, wanted the helicopter to essentially look like I-FREG from 2000, so the film sits in the time line of 2000 (not 2009, i assume) and so...  Insteps the Mystery Bell 222 wearing a Bell 430 Tail Number...

THIS 222 STILL REMAINS UNKNOWN