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.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Lake Superior Helicopters, LLC, so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen October 9 at 12:40 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 3291
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 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 registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 2015
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Aerial surveying; Aerial advertisingFAA certificate purpose code 23 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 19, 2003
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00790604
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lake Superior Helicopters LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N866H links to the rest of the register
- Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 1,454 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lake Superior Helicopters, LLC · charter operator
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250 series 446 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Lake Superior Helicopters LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Duluth, MN 581 aircraft registered in this town
- Duluth International · DLH
- Sky Harbor Airport · DYT
- Minnesota 6,933 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 129 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 8,888 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 764 supplemental type certificates
- Where N866H is now · Last seen October 9 at 12:40 pm.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data