Bell 206B
N59479 is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1973. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Summit Helicopters INC, a corporation in Salem, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 15, 2006 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated February 8, 2010.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Summit Helicopters, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
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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
- 1194
- 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 · Allison 250 SER 400HP · 400 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A7AFB2 (octal 51727662)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 15, 2006
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and development; To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 10 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 8, 2010
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00205288
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Summit Helicopters 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 909
Salem, VA 24153-0909
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 N59479 links to the rest of the register
- Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 1,453 registered
- Bell 3,080 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Summit Helicopters, Inc. · charter operator
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250 series 446 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Summit Helicopters INC 15 aircraft in the fleet
- Salem, VA 53 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,973 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
- Report filed on this aircraft: Coupling, failed · 2006-03-02
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bearing, malfunctioned · 2003-09-16
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The public federal record on N59479, 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 Summit Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 15, 2006, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 8, 2010, 37 years after the 1973 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 1194 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N59479 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N59479. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 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 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data