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N5869Y

Bell 206A-1

Valid Arkansas

N5869Y is a Bell 206A-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1971. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Mid South Aviation Institute, a corporation in Black Rock, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 22, 2011.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
206A-1
Serial number
44001
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison T63-A-700 · 317 hp
Seats
5
Year built
1971
Cruising speed
112 mph
Transponder code
A78FDC (octal 51707734)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 18, 2011
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · June 22, 2011
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00726661

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mid South Aviation Institute
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 85
Black Rock, AR 72415-0085

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

1965-12-07Piper PA-23-250 · exported to Australia · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data