Bell 206B
N59383 is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1973. It has 5 seats. It is registered to N57Aw LLC, an LLC in Glendale, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2011 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 13, 1973. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1150
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 400HP · 400 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A7AC18 (octal 51726030)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 5, 2011
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 13, 1973
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00461955
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N57Aw LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 24017 N 55Th Ave
Glendale, AZ 85310-3730
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 1
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The public federal record on N59383, 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 N57Aw LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 5, 2011, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 13, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1150 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N59383 according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 16, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N59383: Accident on May 27, 2011 at Glendale, AZ: 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 206B3 · operated under 091
The certified flight instructor's failure to maintain adequate main rotor RPM during the autorotation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR11CA243 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