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N972RH

Bell 206B

Valid Texas

N972RH is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1976. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Friend Ships, a corporation in Galveston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 25, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 15, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
206B
Serial number
2050
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 400HP · 400 hp
Seats
5
Year built
1976
Cruising speed
112 mph
Transponder code
AD8C92 (octal 53306222)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 25, 2019
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 15, 1976
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00651063

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Friend Ships
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 3629
Galveston, TX 77552-0629

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