Bell 206-L4
N12JW is a Bell 206-L4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Ruffwood INC, a corporation in Atlanta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 1997 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 8, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206-L4 · all 206-L4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 52193
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C30 SER · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A05236 (octal 50051066)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 21, 1997
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 8, 1997
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00186451
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ruffwood INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1425 N Harris Rdg NW
Atlanta, GA 30327-4423
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N12JW, 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 Ruffwood INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 21, 1997, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 8, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52193 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12JW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 273829, cancelled December 2, 1988). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N12JW. 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