{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1990-08-31","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2009-03-10","city":"LINCOLN","country_code":"US","county_code":"121","cruise_speed_mph":112,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03020","engine_horsepower":420,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250-C20 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-23","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181511","mode_s_code":"50324173","mode_s_hex":"A1A87B","model":"206B","n_number":"N206BW","name":"WESSON WILLIAM D","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N206BW is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1990. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lincoln, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 10, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 31, 1990.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Wesson William D, an individual, certificate issued March 10, 2009, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated August 31, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4121 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N206BW was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 2301, cancelled March 13, 2006); Bell 206B (serial 4202, cancelled May 2, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N206BW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":5,"serial_number":"4121","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2101 PATTON CHAPEL RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00664602","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N206BW","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1990,"zip":"350964730"}