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Bell 206-L4
N157PA is a Bell 206-L4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2003. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Patriot Aviation INC, a non-citizen corporation in Greenville, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 7, 2021.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of English Air Service, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 7:48 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206-L4 · all 206-L4s 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
- 52241
- 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 · Rolls-Royc 250-C30P · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A0E576 (octal 50162566)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 3, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 7, 2021
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00433573
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Patriot Aviation INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporationFAA type of owner code 8 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3801 Kennett Pike Bldg C Ste 100
Greenville, DE 19807
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 2
Connections how N157PA links to the rest of the register
- Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 1,454 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- English Air Service, LLC · charter operator
- Rolls-Royce 250-C30P 152 aircraft with this engine series · 650 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Patriot Aviation INC 18 aircraft in the fleet
- Greenville, DE 42 aircraft registered in this town
- Delaware 10,952 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
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce 250-C30P 16 airworthiness directives
- Where N157PA is now · Last seen October 15 at 7:48 am.
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The public federal record on N157PA, 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 Patriot Aviation INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued May 3, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 7, 2021, 18 years after the 2003 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 52241 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N157PA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech 1900C (serial UB56, cancelled March 18, 2016); Piaggio P180 (serial 1072, cancelled March 31, 2004). 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 N157PA. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data