Bell 206B-III
N43MA is a Bell 206B-III, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1991. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Minuteman Aviation INC, a corporation in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 9, 1991 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 15, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B-III · all 206B-IIIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 4156
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A521D9 (octal 51220731)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 9, 1991
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 15, 1991
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00514972
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Minuteman Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 6337 Aviation Way W
Missoula, MT 59808-9365
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 N43MA, 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 Minuteman Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 9, 1991, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 15, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4156 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N43MA 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 N43MA: Accident on April 4, 2014 at Missoula, MT: 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 206B III · operated under 091
A dynamic rollover during attempted liftoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR14LA159 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