Bell 206B
N152CA is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Chem Air LLC, an LLC in Shreveport, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 1993 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 12, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2342
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A0D1D0 (octal 50150720)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 1993
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · May 12, 1993
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00892240
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chem Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7545 Haygood Rd
Shreveport, LA 71107-3506
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N152CA, 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 Chem Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 13, 1993, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 12, 1993, 15 years after the 1978 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 2342 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N152CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Embraer EMB-120RT (serial 120.152, cancelled January 11, 2001). 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]
1 NTSB record under N152CA: Accident on September 25, 2014 at Nashoba, OK: 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 206B · operated under 137
The pilot's loss of directional control due a loss of tail rotor effectiveness.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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