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N871M

Bell TH-13T

Valid Minnesota

N871M is a Bell TH-13T, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to Scotts Helicopter Services, a corporation in Le Sueur, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2007 and expires on October 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
TH-13T
Serial number
3802
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
3
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
78 mph
Transponder code
ABFB20 (octal 52775440)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 8, 2007
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00333176

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Scotts Helicopter Services
Type
Corporation
Address
780 S Elmwood Ave
Le Sueur, MN 56058-2169

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

1934-11-02Bellanca CH300 PACEMAKER · Valid registration

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