Bell 206B
N156CA is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1976. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Chem-Air LLC, an LLC in Shreveport, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2014 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated June 19, 2014.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA 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
- 1999
- 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-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A0E0AC (octal 50160254)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2014
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 131 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 19, 2014
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00313410
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chem-Air 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
- 7545 Haygood Rd
Shreveport, LA 71107-3506
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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
Connections how N156CA links to the rest of the register
- Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 1,453 registered
- Bell 3,079 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20B 113 aircraft with this engine series · 420 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Chem-Air LLC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Shreveport, LA 275 aircraft registered in this town
- Shreveport Downtown Airport · DTN
- Shreveport Regional · SHV
- Louisiana 3,734 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 129 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 8,888 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 764 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20B 1,981 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Flap Track, dirty · 2001-08-27
- Report filed on this aircraft: Annunciator, malfunctioned · 2001-08-23
- Report filed on this aircraft: Annunciator, malfunctioned · 2001-08-11
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The public federal record on N156CA, 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 January 27, 2014, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 19, 2014, 38 years after the 1976 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 1999 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N156CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Embraer EMB-120RT (serial 120.156, cancelled September 6, 2005). 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 N156CA. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data