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N445

Bell 206B-III

N445 is a Bell 206B-III, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1993. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Wisk Aero LLC, an LLC in Mountain View, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 5, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
206B-III · all 206B-IIIs and related versions
Serial number
4285
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
Seats
5
Year built
1993
Transponder code
A55D2F (octal 51256457)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 19, 2026
Expires
August 31, 2033
Last FAA action
August 19, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · October 5, 1993
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00081478

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wisk Aero LLC
Type
LLC
Address
2700 Broderick Way
Mountain View, CA 94043-1108

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 3

2011-03-08Aero Commander 1121 · Expired dealer
1966-09-27Beech C18S · Valid registration
1933-07-29Standard Aircraft Co J-1 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N445, 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 Wisk Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 19, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated October 5, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4285 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N445 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Aero Commander 1121 (serial 37, cancelled March 8, 2011); Beech C18S (serial 8229, cancelled September 27, 1966); Standard Aircraft Co J-1 (serial 16, cancelled July 29, 1933). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N445. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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