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N39049

Bell 206B

N39049 is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1980. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Aspen Helicopters INC, a corporation in Oxnard, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 1989 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; other, dated March 27, 1992.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
206B · all 206Bs and related versions
Serial number
3101
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
Seats
5
Year built
1980
Cruising speed
112 mph
Transponder code
A485CF (octal 51102717)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 31, 1989
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control; Other · March 27, 1992
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00420564

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Aspen Helicopters INC
Type
Corporation
Address
2899 W 5Th Street
Oxnard, CA 93030

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

1971-01-18Luscombe 8C · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N39049, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Aspen Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 31, 1989, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 27, 1992, 12 years after the 1980 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3101 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N39049 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8C (serial 1810, cancelled January 18, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N39049: Accident on September 29, 1993 at Wht Sands Mr, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

FTW93GA269Accident on September 29, 1993 at Wht Sands Mr, NM: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 206B · operated under 091

THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO LAND AN ADEQUATE DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE UNSECURED PARACHUTE.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW93GA269 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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