Bell 206B
N543CC is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1982. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Bighorn Flying CO LLC, an LLC in Wood River, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 11, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 21, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3593
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A6E346 (octal 51561506)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 11, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 17, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · April 21, 1997
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00092052
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bighorn Flying CO LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3236 S NE Hwy 11
Wood River, NE 68883
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 N543CC, 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 Bighorn Flying CO LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 11, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 21, 1997, 15 years after the 1982 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 3593 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N543CC 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 N543CC: Accident on July 13, 1988 at Plymouth, MA: 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 · operated under 091
A LOSS OF POWER TO THE ENGINE BECAUSE THE FUEL CONTROL WAS NOT PROPERLY ADJUSTED AND COLLISION WITH TERRAIN DUE TO AN UNSUITABLE LANDING AREA.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC88LA201 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