Bell 206B
N197AA is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1981. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Chem-Air INC, a corporation in Shreveport, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 9, 2004 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated February 26, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3517
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A1822D (octal 50301055)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 9, 2004
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · February 26, 1999
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00851622
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chem-Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 7545 Haygood Rd
Shreveport, LA 71107-3506
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.
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The public federal record on N197AA, 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 Chem-Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 9, 2004, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 26, 1999, 18 years after the 1981 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 3517 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N197AA according to the deregistered file. [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 N197AA: Accident on September 9, 2003 at Kisatchie, LA: 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 206B-3 · operated under 137
A loss of engine power due to water contamination in the fuel system.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data