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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026
N12AA

Bell 206-L4

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesGeorgia

N12AA is a Bell 206-L4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1996. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Allsouth Aviation LLC, an LLC in Buford, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 13, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 23, 2002.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
206-L4 · all 206-L4s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
52165
Type
RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
Seats
7
Year built
1996
Transponder code
A0515A (octal 50050532)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 13, 2023
Expires
December 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 18, 2025
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 23, 2002
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00785791

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Allsouth Aviation LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
1525 Broadmoor Blvd
Buford, GA 30518-3483

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

2018-04-24Pitts SPECIAL · Expired dealer

Connections how N12AA links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Buford, GA 24 aircraft registered in this town
  • Georgia 8,798 aircraft registered

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Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N12AA, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Allsouth Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 13, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 23, 2002, 6 years after the 1996 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52165 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N12AA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Pitts SPECIAL (serial 102, cancelled April 24, 2018). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N12AA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data