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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N169RL

Bell 206-L4

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesLouisiana

N169RL is a Bell 206-L4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1993. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Rotorcraft Leasing CO LLC, an LLC in Broussard, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 3, 2008 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 30, 1993. 2 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan release.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Rotorcraft Leasing Company, L.L.C., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
206-L4 · all 206-L4s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A 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
52063
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-C30 SER · 650 hp
Seats
7
Year built
1993
Transponder code
A1149F (octal 50212237)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 3, 2008
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 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 · November 30, 1993
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00444582

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rotorcraft Leasing CO 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
430 N Eola Rd
Broussard, LA 70518-3304
Charter N169RL with Rotorcraft Leasing Company, L.L.C.:

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 2

2026-10-19Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)
2026-10-20Loan release

Connections how N169RL links to the rest of the register

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Owner
Place
  • Broussard, LA 143 aircraft registered in this town
  • Louisiana 3,733 aircraft registered

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The public federal record on N169RL, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Rotorcraft Leasing CO LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 3, 2008, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated November 30, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52063 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N169RL according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

2 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 19, 2026), Loan release (October 20, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N169RL. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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