Bell 206B
N59495 is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1954. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Knutson Flying Service INC, a corporation in Tioga, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 1974 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying, dated July 2, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1373
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 400HP · 400 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A7AFF4 (octal 51727764)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 1974
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial surveying · July 2, 1980
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00551985
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Knutson Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 333
Tioga, ND 58852-0333
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N59495, 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 Knutson Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 24, 1974, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 2, 1980, 26 years after the 1954 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 1373 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N59495 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Curtiss Wright C-46E (serial 2937, cancelled January 13, 1949). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N59495: Accident on June 4, 1986 at Portal, ND: minor 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 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN86LA151 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