Schweizer 269C
N656RB is a Schweizer 269C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Bas Part Sales LLC, an LLC in Greeley, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 2, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- 269C · all 269Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- S1744
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A8A47D (octal 52122175)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- August 15, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 2, 1997
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00366321
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bas Part Sales LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 575 Ed Beegles Ln
Greeley, CO 80631
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 N656RB, 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 Bas Part Sales LLC, an LLC, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 2, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S1744 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N656RB 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 N656RB: Accident on October 3, 2024 at Montrose, CO: 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: Schweizer 269C · operated under 091
On October 2, 2024, about 1840, mountain daylight time, a Schweizer 296C helicopter, N656RB, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Montrose, Colorado. The pilot and passenger sustained minor injuries. The helicopter was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot stated that during an autorotation demonstration, the helicopter had a complete loss of engine power. The pilot had set up the demonstration about 1,500 ft above ground level and about 60 knots indicated airspeed with hard packed gravel terrain chosen for their tou…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA003 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data