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N78BR

Bell 206B

Valid Montana

N78BR is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1988. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Montana Air Tankers LLC, an LLC in Three Forks, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 8, 2006.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
206B
Serial number
4001
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20J · 420 hp
Seats
5
Year built
1988
Cruising speed
112 mph
Transponder code
AA8E56 (octal 52507126)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 15, 2023
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
March 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · June 8, 2006
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00241079

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Montana Air Tankers LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1680 Airport Rd
Three Forks, MT 59752-9085

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