Bell 206B
N206BG is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1972. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Merced County Sherrifs Office, a government body in Merced, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 18, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 861
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 400HP · 400 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A1A86D (octal 50324155)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 11, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 11, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 18, 1972
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00260790
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Merced County Sherrifs Office
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 2222 M St
Merced, CA 95340-3729
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N206BG, 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 Merced County Sherrifs Office, a government body, certificate issued July 11, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 18, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 861 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N206BG 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N206BG. 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