Bell 206B
N866H is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1981. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Lake Superior Helicopters LLC, an LLC in Duluth, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2015 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying; aerial advertising, dated December 19, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3291
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 317HP · 317 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- ABE5D0 (octal 52762720)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 2015
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial surveying; Aerial advertising · December 19, 2003
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00790604
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lake Superior Helicopters LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4525 Airport Approach Rd
Duluth, MN 55811-1534
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N866H, 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 Lake Superior Helicopters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 17, 2015, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 19, 2003, 22 years after the 1981 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 3291 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N866H was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech C-45G (serial AF-313, cancelled October 22, 1971); Spartan C3-165 (serial 118, cancelled July 12, 1940). 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 N866H: Accident on July 30, 2014 at Spring, TX: 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 206B · operated under PUBU
The pilot's distraction by a cell phone call, which led to his failure to perform an exterior check of the helicopter and resulted in a tie-down strap remaining attached to the main rotor during the engine start.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN14LA465 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