Bell 206B
N9290Z is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Maco Aviation INC, a corporation in Dayton, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 21, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 21, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2452
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- ACE209 (octal 53161011)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 21, 2017
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · June 21, 2017
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00920170
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Maco Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 414 S 1St St
Dayton, WA 99328-1561
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 N9290Z, 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 Maco Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 21, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 21, 2017, 39 years after the 1978 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 2452 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9290Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1 (serial 1387, cancelled May 17, 2011). 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 N9290Z: Accident on July 23, 2010 at Ketchikan, AK: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Dehavilland BEAVER DHC-2 MK.1 · operated under 135
The pilot’s decision to continue the flight toward his destination in significant turbulence and downdrafts, and his subsequent failure to maintain control of the airplane while flying low over rising terrain.
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