Bell 206-L4
N173RL 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 14, 2008 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 27, 1993. 3 documents are on file: loan or lien (security agreement), bill of sale (evidence of ownership), disclaimer.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206-L4 · all 206-L4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 52066
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C30 SER · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- A125D4 (octal 50222724)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 14, 2008
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 27, 1993
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00464582
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rotorcraft Leasing CO LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 430 N Eola Rd
Broussard, LA 70518-3304
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 3
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The public federal record on N173RL, 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 Rotorcraft Leasing CO LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 14, 2008, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 27, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52066 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N173RL according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 18, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N173RL. 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