Bell 206B
N53MA is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1977. It has 5 seats. It is registered to AG Air INC, a corporation in Johnstown, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 2, 2006 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated June 29, 2006.
Where is it now Last seen October 7 at 8:54 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 2285
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A6AF28 (octal 51527450)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 2, 2006
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; OtherFAA certificate purpose code 130 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 29, 2006
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00452655
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- AG Air INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 606
Johnstown, CO 80534-0606
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.
Connections how N53MA links to the rest of the register
- Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 1,453 registered
- Bell 3,079 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rolls-Royce 250-C20B 216 aircraft with this engine series · 420 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- AG Air INC 10 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to July 9, 2027
- Johnstown, CO 26 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,469 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 129 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 8,889 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 764 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce 250-C20B 21 airworthiness directives
- Where N53MA is now · Last seen October 7 at 8:54 am.
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The public federal record on N53MA, 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 AG Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 2, 2006, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 29, 2006, 29 years after the 1977 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 2285 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N53MA 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 N53MA: Accident on December 9, 1990 at Coeur D'Alene, ID: no 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-3 · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND (PIC) TO MAINTAIN ROTOR RPM, AND A DELAY BY THE FAA INSPECTOR (FLIGHT EXAMINER) IN TAKING REMEDICAL ACTION.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data