Bell 206L-3
N31079 is a Bell 206L-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1991. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Top Flight Aviation Of Mississippi LLC, an LLC in Picayune, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2016 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 5, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206L-3 · all 206L-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 51526
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C30 SER · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A34A40 (octal 50645100)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2016
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 5, 1991
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00885591
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Top Flight Aviation Of Mississippi LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 148 Runway Rd Lot F
Picayune, MS 39466-8341
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N31079, 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 Top Flight Aviation Of Mississippi LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 12, 2016, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 5, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 51526 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N31079 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 185 (serial 18504212, cancelled May 26, 1983). 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 N31079. 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 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