Bell 206-L4
N173MS is a Bell 206-L4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, a government body in Marathon, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2003 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 24, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206-L4 · all 206-L4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 52256
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C30 SER · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A12576 (octal 50222566)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 8, 2003
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 24, 2000
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00895970
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Florida Keys Mosquito Control District
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 503 107Th Street Gulf
Marathon, FL 33050-3021
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N173MS, 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 Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, a government body, certificate issued November 8, 2003, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 24, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52256 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N173MS 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]
1 NTSB record under N173MS: Accident on April 12, 2019 at Big Pine, FL: no 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 206 · operated under PUBU
The pilot's failure to maintain helicopter control while it was being reloaded with the rotors turning in gusting wind conditions, which resulted in a rotor strike with ground equipment.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data