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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of September 25, 2026
N973NA

Bell 206B

Valid Texas

N973NA is a Bell 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
Model
206B
Serial number
3884
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor
Seats
5
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
112 mph
Transponder code
AD8FF7 (octal 53307767)

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
01521505

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

2013-09-12Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR 42-300 · Registration expired, pending cancellation

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