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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1194
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 400HP · 400 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A7AFB2 (octal 51727662)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 15, 2006
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; To show compliance with regulations · February 8, 2010
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00205288
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Summit Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
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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 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