Bell 206-L4
N12BQ is a Bell 206-L4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1993. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Helicopters INC, a corporation in Cahokia, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 3, 1997 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 18, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206-L4 · all 206-L4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 52012
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C30 SER · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- A05181 (octal 50050601)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 3, 1997
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 18, 1997
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00056371
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5000 Omega Dr
Cahokia, IL 62206-1469
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 N12BQ, 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 Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 3, 1997, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 18, 1997, 4 years after the 1993 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 52012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N12BQ 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N12BQ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data