Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-3
N17TL is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1992. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Turbines LTD, a corporation in West Point, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 21, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 206L-3 · all 206L-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 51603
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C30P · 650 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A11888 (octal 50214210)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 25, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 21, 2024
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01410828
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Turbines LTD
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 140 19Th Rd
West Point, NE 68788-4506
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 1
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The public federal record on N17TL, 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 Turbines LTD, a corporation, certificate issued August 25, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 21, 2024, 32 years after the 1992 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 51603 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17TL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lopez Thomas Lee KOLB TWINSTAR (serial 46, cancelled October 25, 2006). 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]
1 NTSB record under N17TL: Accident on August 22, 2025 at Picayune, MS: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-3 · operated under 091
On August 22, 2025, about 1130 central daylight time, a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-3 helicopter, N17TL, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Picayune, Mississippi. The pilot and passenger were not injured. The helicopter was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The purpose of the flight was to inspect a hangar being built for the operator at the Picayune Municipal Airport in Picacyune, Mississippi. The pilot stated that he does a few practice maneuvers during each flight and on this flight, he was practicing a “quick…
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- 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