Bell Helicopter Textron 206B
N169AA is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1973. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Pierce Associates LLC, an LLC in Prineville, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 2, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 990
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1973
- Transponder code
- A1131E (octal 50211436)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 20, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 2, 2021
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01340656
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pierce Associates LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 15
Prineville, OR 97754-0015
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N169AA, 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 Pierce Associates LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 20, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 2, 2021, 48 years after the 1973 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 990 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N169AA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T210N (serial 21063971, cancelled July 15, 2011). 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 N169AA: Accident on August 1, 2022 at Arcadia, IA: minor 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: Bell Helicopter Textron 206B · operated under 137
Maintenance personnel’s failure to properly torque a fuel control unit B-nut, which resulted in a loss of engine power at low altitude and an impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA351 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