Bell 206B
N88HC is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1975. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Tri-Rotor Spray & Chemical, a corporation in Ulysses, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 2, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 9, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1576
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20 · 400 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- AC1C2E (octal 53016056)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 2, 2008
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 9, 2008
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00662021
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tri-Rotor Spray & Chemical
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 9170 E Road 2
Ulysses, KS 67880-8151
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 N88HC, 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 Tri-Rotor Spray & Chemical, a corporation, certificate issued May 2, 2008, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 9, 2008, 33 years after the 1975 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 1576 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N88HC 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 N88HC: Accident on January 12, 2019 at Yuma, AZ: serious 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 206 · operated under 137
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from power transmission wires while flying at low altitude in nighttime conditions.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data