Bell 206L-3
N203PA is a Bell 206L-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1991. It has 7 seats. It is registered to D H Helicopter INC DBA, a corporation in Mcminnville, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 28, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 29, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206L-3 · all 206L-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 51462
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C30 SER · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A19E6E (octal 50317156)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 28, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 29, 1991
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00193642
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- D H Helicopter INC DBA
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3800 NE Three Mile Ln
Mcminnville, OR 97128 - Co-owners
- North American Helicopter
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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 N203PA, 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 D H Helicopter INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued May 28, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 29, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 51462 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N203PA 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 N203PA: Accident on July 19, 2022 at Franklin, PA: 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 206L-3 · operated under 091
The pilot’s inadequate visual lookout while flying at a low level over a river, which resulted in a wire strike.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA22LA347 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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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