Bell 206A
N555SJ is a Bell 206A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Apex59 LLC, an LLC in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 19, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 11, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206A · all 206As and related versions
- Serial number
- 308
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A71397 (octal 51611627)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 19, 2017
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 11, 2002
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00620125
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Apex59 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1041 Grand Ave # 261
Saint Paul, MN 55105-3002
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 N555SJ, 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 Apex59 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 19, 2017, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 11, 2002, 34 years after the 1968 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 308 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N555SJ 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 N555SJ: Accident on January 3, 1997 at Linden, NJ: 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 206A · operated under 091
the pilot allowing the rotor RPM to decay and his failure to take remedial action in time to recover the autorotation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC97LA041 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