Bell TH-57
N19SM is a Bell TH-57, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 5 seats. It is registered to Southmark Aviation INC, a corporation in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 16, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 2 documents are on file: 2 × loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- TH-57 · all TH-57s and related versions
- Serial number
- 162680
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A1676E (octal 50263556)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 16, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 17, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01538054
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southmark Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 29 Refuge Ln
Hattiesburg, MS 39402-6622
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 2
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 4 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N19SM, 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 Southmark Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 16, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 162680 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N19SM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5B (serial AA5B-0034, cancelled April 11, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
2 loan or lien documents received by the registry recently (September 1, 2026, September 18, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N19SM: Accident on July 6, 1987 at Abingdon, VA: fatal, destroyed (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: Grumman AA-5B · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO87FA046 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