Bell 206B
N32KY is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 5 seats. It is registered to English Air Service LLC, an LLC in Santa Maria, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2010 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; weather control, dated May 5, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2875
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 · 400 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A36CEF (octal 50666357)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 2010
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control; Weather control · May 5, 2026
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00971184
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- English Air Service LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3409 Corsair Cir
Santa Maria, CA 93455-2500
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.
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The public federal record on N32KY, 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 English Air Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 21, 2010, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 5, 2026, 47 years after the 1979 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 2875 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N32KY 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 N32KY: Accident on November 12, 1998 at Louisville, KY: minor 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-B · operated under 091
A loose 'B' nut on the aircraft's PC Air line which resulted in fuel starvation, and the pilot's abrupt application of aft cyclic to prevent a nose over. Contributing factors were soft terrain and dark night conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD99LA015 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