Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1
N178PA is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Orlando Aircraft Sales LLC, an LLC in Orlando, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 2, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 1, 1994. 4 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), 2 × loan or lien (security agreement), loan release.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron
- Model
- 206L-1 · all 206L-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 45319
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A1382B (octal 50234053)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 2, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 2, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 1, 1994
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00970203
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Orlando Aircraft Sales LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 235 Nilson Way
Orlando, FL 32803-6488
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 4
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The public federal record on N178PA, 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 Orlando Aircraft Sales LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 2, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 1, 1994, 15 years after the 1979 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 45319 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N178PA according to the deregistered file. [2]
2 loan or lien documents received by the registry recently (September 15, 2026, September 16, 2026), and 1 release. The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N178PA. 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