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N116BS

Wsk-Pzl Meilec PZL M18B

Valid Montana

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Wsk-Pzl Meilec
Model
PZL M18B · all PZL M18Bs and related versions
Serial number
1Z027-16
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wsk-Pzl-K AI-14R SERIES · 260 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A042A7 (octal 50041247)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 16, 2026
Expires
May 31, 2033
Last FAA action
May 16, 2026
Airworthiness
Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest · May 26, 2000
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00813553

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
New Frontier Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
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

1981-01-06Swearingen SA226TC · exported to South Africa · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to New Frontier Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 16, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated May 26, 2000, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1Z027-16 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

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]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N116BS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data