Bell 206A
N123NC is a Bell 206A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1971. It has 4 seats. It is registered to North Carolina State Highway Patrol, a government body in Cary, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 18, 1990 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 1, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206A · all 206As and related versions
- Serial number
- 610
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 250HP · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A06006 (octal 50060006)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 18, 1990
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 1, 1971
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00921982
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- North Carolina State Highway Patrol
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1142 SE Maynard Rd
Cary, NC 27511-4163
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.
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The public federal record on N123NC, 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 North Carolina State Highway Patrol, a government body, certificate issued July 18, 1990, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 1, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 610 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N123NC 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 N123NC: Accident on November 8, 2020 at Raleigh, NC: 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 206 · operated under 091
The pilot's loss of helicopter control after entry into vortex ring state, which resulted in main rotor blade contact with the tailboom, and impact with the ground.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA21LA040 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