Bell 206B
N78BR is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1988. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Montana Air Tankers LLC, an LLC in Three Forks, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 8, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 4001
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20J · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1988
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- AA8E56 (octal 52507126)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 15, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 8, 2006
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00241079
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Montana Air Tankers LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1680 Airport Rd
Three Forks, MT 59752-9085
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 N78BR, 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 Montana Air Tankers LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 15, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 8, 2006, 18 years after the 1988 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 4001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78BR 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 N78BR: Accident on January 15, 2011 at Three Forks, MT: 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 pilot’s inadequate use of throttle during the practice autorotation that resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR11CA101 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