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Bell 206A JetRanger Blueprint Wall Art
Open production · Made after your order
A hand-plotted technical blueprint, drawn stroke by stroke in real ink.
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A technical plan of the Bell 206A JetRanger, plotted pen to paper, line by line, on 250 g/m² paper, 11 × 17 in. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink, one pass at a time. On the back, a serial number and date, plotted in UV ink in the same pass as the drawing.
The plan of the JetRanger exists as a file, everywhere. What doesn't exist everywhere is a copy someone can point to and say who drew it, where, on what day, and under what serial number.
Bell designed the 206 to win a US Army competition for a light observation helicopter during the Vietnam War, where it was built and flown as the OH-58 Kiowa. The civilian version, the 206A JetRanger, first flew in 1966 and entered service in 1967, carrying over the military airframe's stability and low operating cost into a market built for flight schools, charter operators, and news and police units. A single Allison 250-C18A turboshaft, 317 shp, drives the two-blade main rotor and turns a machine that cruises at 190 km/h and covers 600 km on a tank. Simple, reliable, and cheap to maintain, the JetRanger became one of the best-selling civil helicopters ever built — Bell and its licensees produced roughly 3,700 examples across the family before the line closed out in 2010. This blueprint captures the bubble canopy and slim tailboom that made it instantly recognizable on skids everywhere from farm fields to film sets.
At a Glance
- ◆1x Allison 250-C18A turboshaft, 317 shp
- ◆Cruise speed: 190 km/h
- ◆Range: 600 km (373 mi)
- ◆1 pilot, up to 4 passengers
- ◆Derived from the military OH-58 Kiowa
- ◆~3,700 aircraft built across variants
Each piece is physically plotted by the studio's precision robot in Québec City, using Stabilo® Fineliners and Sakura® Gelly Roll inks on 250 gsm (120 lb) stock — stroke by stroke, never printed. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink. The result is a tactile, hand-plotted finish — never printed.
Specifications
> FORMAT: Tabloid Standard [11" x 17"]
> INK SYSTEM: Stabilo® Fineliner / Sakura® Gelly Roll
> SUBSTRATE: 250gsm High-Density Stock [120lb]
> EXECUTION: Precision Vector Plotting
> PLOT TIME: ~1–1.5 h of machine drawing time
> PRODUCTION: Open · plotted after you order
> ORIGIN: Québec City, Canada
What the robot does, what a person does
The robot
- ◆runs the file
- ◆draws
- ◆lays down ink
- ◆repeats without tiring
A person
- ◆picks the aircraft
- ◆designs the linework
- ◆decides which lines disappear
- ◆sets pressure, speed, pen height
- ◆watches the hours
- ◆signs, numbers, packs
Drawn by a robot. Designed by a person.
Included
Production timelapse included — every order · no extra cost
Watch your piece being plotted, line by line, by the studio's robot. A personal timelapse of your production is sent with every order — to share, or to keep as a record of how your piece came to be.
Hidden signature
Real footage — an early production piece, shown under blacklight.
A signature only UV light reveals
On the back of every piece, in the same pass as the drawing, we plot a signature invisible under normal light — codeink.art, the piece's name and serial number, the year, and Québec. Shine a blacklight on it and it glows.
“The rotor is the whole drawing here — a two-blade main rotor reads as almost nothing from the front view, so the top view has to carry the entire story of how this thing stays in the air. Compared to a fixed-wing subject, a helicopter's silhouette barely changes between elevations, which made picking what to leave out harder, not easier.”
Open production, no duplicates
Every JetRanger piece is plotted after you order it — the pen wears down differently each pass, ink density shifts, and no two lines close exactly the same way. Nothing is corrected or hidden.
PERFECTLY imperfect.
A real process, not a printer
Each piece is physically plotted, pen on paper, in Québec City — watch the machine work.
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Real defects — shipping damage, wrong colour, missing lines — are replaced free of charge.
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Numbered and signed
A unique serial number and the date are plotted on the back in UV ink — invisible to the naked eye, laid down in the same pass as the drawing.
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