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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026Wsk-Pzl Meilec PZL M18B
N116BS is a Wsk-Pzl Meilec PZL M18B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to New Frontier Aviation LLC, an LLC in Fort Benton, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated May 26, 2000.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Wsk-Pzl Meilec
- Model
- PZL M18B · all PZL M18Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Wsk-Pzl Meilec PZL M18B family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1Z027-16
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Wsk-Pzl-K AI-14R SERIES · 260 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A042A7 (octal 50041247)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 16, 2026
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest control; ForestFAA certificate purpose code 14 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 26, 2000
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00813553
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- New Frontier Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 9
Fort Benton, MT 59442-0009
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N116BS links to the rest of the register
- Wsk-Pzl Meilec PZL M18B 8 registered
- Wsk-Pzl Meilec 8 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wsk-Pzl-K AI-14R series 10 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- New Frontier Aviation LLC 16 aircraft in the fleet
- Fort Benton, MT 29 aircraft registered in this town
- Fort Benton Airport · 79S
- Montana 6,041 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Wsk-Pzl Meilec PZL M18B 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Wsk-Pzl Meilec PZL M18B 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Wsk-Pzl Meilec PZL M18B 19 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Prop Governor, failed · 1997-03-20
- Report filed on this aircraft: Switch, intermittent · 1996-12-23
- Report filed on this aircraft: Seal, failed · 1996-05-06
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N116BS.json.
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The public federal record on N116BS, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to New Frontier Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 16, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated May 26, 2000, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1Z027-16 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N116BS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Swearingen SA226TC (serial TC-331, cancelled January 6, 1981). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N116BS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data