We study Van den Bergh's noncommutative symmetric algebra S nc (M ) (over division rings) via Minamoto's theory of Fano algebras. In particular, we show S nc (M ) is coherent, and its proj category P nc (M ) is derived equivalent to the corresponding bimodule species. This generalizes the main theorem of [8], which in turn is a generalization of Beilinson's derived equivalence. As corollaries, we show that P nc (M ) is hereditary and there is a structure theorem for sheaves on P nc (M ) analogous to that for P 1 . 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 14A22, 16S38; Secondary 16E35. Proof. To prove the first result (which appeared in [5]), one shows that there are D 1 − D 0 -bimodule isomorphisms Hom D1 (M D1 , D 1 ) → Hom k (M, k) and Hom D0 ( D0 M, D 0 ) → Hom k (M, k).The first one takes ψ : M D1 → D 1 to tr D1/k •ψ, and the second is similar.The proofs of the second and third results follow the proof of [4, Lemma 3.2].