Bell 206L-3
N206CJ is a Bell 206L-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1992. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Cb Couch INC, a corporation in Walcott, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 4, 2013 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 6, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206L-3 · all 206L-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 51579
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A1A888 (octal 50324210)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 4, 2013
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · June 6, 2013
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00014232
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cb Couch INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 42
Walcott, AR 72474-0042
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 N206CJ, 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 Cb Couch INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 4, 2013, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 6, 2013, 21 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 51579 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N206CJ 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 N206CJ: Accident on October 15, 2015 at Dickinson, AL: 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 137
The improper installation by company maintenance personnel of the securing hardware of a tail rotor driveshaft section, which resulted in that section of tail rotor driveshaft disconnecting and a complete loss of tail rotor thrust.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA16LA015 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
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