Bell Helicopter Textron 206B
N502NS is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 5 seats. It is registered to National Aeronautics And Space Administration, a government body in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 16, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron
- Model
- 206B
- Serial number
- 3885
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6429B (octal 51441233)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 16, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 18, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01521506
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- National Aeronautics And Space Administration
- Type
- Government
- Address
- C/O Robert Hines
2101 NASA Pkwy # Cc1
Houston, TX 77058-3607
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.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data