Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1
N123HP is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1980. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Southwest Heliservices LLC, an LLC in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 21, 2007 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 21, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron
- Model
- 206L-1 · all 206L-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 45394
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C40B · 715 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A05F94 (octal 50057624)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 21, 2007
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 21, 2007
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00174981
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southwest Heliservices LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 10523 E Fenimore Rd
Mesa, AZ 85207-3203
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N123HP, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Southwest Heliservices LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 21, 2007, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 21, 2007, 27 years after the 1980 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45394 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N123HP according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N123HP: Accident on July 13, 2013 at Inyokern, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1 · operated under 091
The failure of the pilot to maintain aircraft control during a practice autorotation maneuver and the pilot providing training's delayed remedial action which resulted in a hard landing. Contributing to the accident was the lack of communication between the two pilots.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR13CA329 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data