Bell 206B
N2963W is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 5 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The FAA lists the registration as "n-number assigned but not yet registered". It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; aerial surveying, dated October 30, 1990.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 817
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A30E9A (octal 50607232)
Registration
- Status
- N-number assigned but not yet registeredFAA registration status code 2 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- October 8, 2026
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Aerial surveyingFAA certificate purpose code 132 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 30, 1990
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00500923
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- —
- Address
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
Connections how N2963W links to the rest of the register
- Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 1,455 registered
- Bell 3,085 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20 series 531 aircraft with this engine series · 420 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- FAA orders naming the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 129 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 8,886 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 764 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20 series 747 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N2963W.json.
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The public federal record on N2963W, 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.
Registration status is "N-number assigned but not yet registered". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; aerial surveying; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 817 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2963W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 816, cancelled September 1, 1981). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2963W. 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 8, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 8, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 8, 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 8, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data