Bell 214B-1
N214B is a Bell 214B-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 16 seats. It is registered to Central Copters INC, a corporation in Bozeman, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 16, 2002 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 1, 2002. 2 documents are on file: loan release, bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 214B-1 · all 214B-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28039
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming T-55 SER TS · 2650 hp
- Seats
- 16
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A1C877 (octal 50344167)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 16, 2002
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · April 1, 2002
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00025222
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Central Copters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 7300
Bozeman, MT 59771-7300
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N214B, 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 Central Copters INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 16, 2002, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 1, 2002, 24 years after the 1978 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 28039 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N214B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dopita Robert A RANS S-10 (serial 0190084, cancelled January 2, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
2 documents received recently: Loan release (September 8, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 8, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N214B: Accident on September 17, 2004 at Aspen, CO: 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 214B-1 · operated under 091
the inadvertent activation of the engine's fuel shut off valve, resulting in the reduction of engine power to 50 percent due to an improper cannon plug wire repair on the engine's wire harness assembly. Contributing factors include the improper wire repair, the low altitude, and the lack of suitable terrain for a forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN04LA145 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