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A Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger, the same model family as N1AK
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N1AK

Bell 206-L4

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlaska

N1AK is a Bell 206-L4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2005. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Meridian Investments LLC, an LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 4, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 24, 2018.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Icy Strait Aviation LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.

Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 3:29 pm.

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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
52317
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 · Rolls-Royc 250-C30P · 650 hp
Seats
7
Year built
2005
Transponder code
A0000C (octal 50000014)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 4, 2021
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 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 · October 24, 2018
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00166169

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Meridian Investments 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
2193 Viking Dr
Anchorage, AK 99501-1730

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.

Connections how N1AK links to the rest of the register

Design
Flies for
Engine
  • Rolls-Royce 250-C30P 152 aircraft with this engine series · 650 hp
  • Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
Owner
Place
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1AK.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N1AK, 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 Meridian Investments LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 4, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 24, 2018, 13 years after the 2005 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52317 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1AK according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1AK. 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