Bell 206B
N148KY is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1975. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Commonwealth Of Kentucky, a government body in Frankfort, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 6, 1975 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 2, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1795
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 400HP · 400 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A0C160 (octal 50140540)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 6, 1975
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 2, 1975
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00940780
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Commonwealth Of Kentucky
- Type
- Government
- Address
- Capital City Airport
90 Airport Rd
Frankfort, KY 40601-6161 - Co-owners
- Division Of Transportation Services
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N148KY, 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 Commonwealth Of Kentucky, a government body, certificate issued October 6, 1975, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 2, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1795 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N148KY according to the deregistered file. [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 N148KY. 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 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