Bell 230
N880SF is a Bell 230, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 11 seats. It is registered to Magnum Aviation LLC, an LLC in Goff, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 230 · all 230s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Bell 230 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
- 23024
- 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, 2 motors
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC1F6B (octal 53017553)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 19, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00065012
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Magnum Aviation 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
- PO Box 26
Goff, KS 66428-0026
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.
Connections how N880SF links to the rest of the register
- Bell 230 13 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate H9SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron
- Magnum Aviation LLC 28 aircraft in the fleet
- Goff, KS 32 aircraft registered in this town
- Kansas 5,738 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 230 26 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 230 639 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 230 59 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Starter Gen, malfunctioned · 2010-07-28
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bolt, sheared · 2009-10-22
- Report filed on this aircraft: Hanger Assy, worn · 2007-04-26
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N880SF.json.
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The public federal record on N880SF, 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 Magnum Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 19, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23024 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N880SF 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]
2 NTSB records under N880SF: Incident on July 1, 2009 at Peoria, IL: no injuries. Incident on August 20, 2003 at Wilmington, IL: no injuries, minor 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 230 · operated under 135
The loss of the number one hydraulic system fluid and hydraulic pressure during cruise due to the failure of the bolts that secure the hydraulic pump's cover.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 230 · operated under 091
The material defect during the manufacture of the tail rotor counterweight bellcrank and the bellcrank's subsequent failure due to a fatigue fracture.
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