Smith Mike G HELICYCLE
N1200M is a Smith Mike G HELICYCLE, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Troy, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 26, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 27, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith Mike G
- Model
- HELICYCLE
- Serial number
- 5-12B512E
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- EAGLE R & D CO LLC HELICYCLE
- Transponder code
- A05616 (octal 50053026)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 26, 2018
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 27, 2013
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01093462
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bell John J
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 120 Foxwoods Ct
Troy, MO 63379-4474 - Co-owners
- Bell Terry L
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1200M, 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 Bell John J, a co-owned, certificate issued September 26, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5-12B512E for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1200M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC3 (serial 4962, cancelled September 15, 1970). 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]
1 NTSB record under N1200M: Accident on June 1, 1997 at Lake Jackson, TX: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Giertz VMAX PROBE · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during an approach to landing. A related factor was the pilot's lack of experience in make and model of aircraft.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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