Bell 206B
N137MS is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Kansas State University, a government body in Salina, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 10, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2686
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 400HP · 400 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A09656 (octal 50113126)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 19, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 10, 1979
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00833032
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kansas State University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- C/O Polytechnic Campus Avn Dept
2310 Centennial Rd
Salina, KS 67401-8058
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N137MS, 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 Kansas State University, a government body, certificate issued May 19, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 10, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2686 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N137MS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Let N P Kinovice Z37A (serial 14-05, cancelled March 12, 2007). 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 N137MS: Accident on October 24, 2003 at Oak Hill, FL: serious injuries, substantial damage. 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: Let Np Kinovice Z37A · operated under 091
The pilots failure to maintain airspeed while maneuvering to re-enter the pattern resulting in an inadvertent stall and impact with trees and the ground during the subsequent uncontrolled descent.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA04LA011 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 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