Bell 206-L4
N146SP is a Bell 206-L4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Samaritan'S Purse, a corporation in Boone, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 8, 2016 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 26, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206-L4 · all 206-L4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 52243
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C30 SER · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A0BA98 (octal 50135230)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 8, 2016
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 26, 2000
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00503573
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Samaritan'S Purse
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 3000
Boone, NC 28607-3000
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N146SP, 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 Samaritan'S Purse, a corporation, certificate issued January 8, 2016, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 26, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52243 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N146SP 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 N146SP. 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 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