Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1
N2072M is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1982. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Orlando Aircraft Sales LLC, an LLC in Orlando, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 2, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 25, 2026. 4 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), 2 × loan or lien (security agreement), loan release.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron
- Model
- 206L-1 · all 206L-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 45720
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 250HP · 250 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A1AEAE (octal 50327256)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 2, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 2, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · June 25, 2026
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00061372
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Orlando Aircraft Sales LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 235 Nilson Way
Orlando, FL 32803-6488
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 4
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 4 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2072M, 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 Orlando Aircraft Sales LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 2, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 25, 2026, 44 years after the 1982 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 45720 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2072M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech E-55 (serial TE1158, cancelled May 14, 1979). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
2 loan or lien documents received by the registry recently (September 15, 2026, September 16, 2026), and 1 release. The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N2072M: Accident on April 23, 2013 at Grand Canyon, AZ: 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 Helicopter Textron 206L-1 · operated under 091
The failure of the flight instructor and the pilot receiving instruction to recognize before entering the flare that the wind had shifted to a tailwind and terminate the practice autorotation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR13CA206 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