Bell 206B
N85CA is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1967. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Le Sueur, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 21, 1999 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 2, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 101
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- ABA532 (octal 52722462)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 21, 1999
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 2, 1993
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00824762
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Churchill Scott
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 92
Le Sueur, MN 56058-0092
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 N85CA, 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 Churchill Scott, an individual, certificate issued April 21, 1999, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 2, 1993, 26 years after the 1967 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 101 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N85CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Britten-Norman BN-2A (serial C-279, cancelled August 8, 1974). 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 N85CA: Accident on July 26, 1995 at Talkeetna, AK: 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 091
THE INADVERTENT RESTRICTION OF THE ANTI-TORQUE PEDAL BY THE PILOT'S FOOT, WHILE THE PILOT (AN INCOMPLETE PARAPLEGIC) WAS ATTEMPTING TO LAND.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC95LA115 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