Bell 206L-3
N216TV is a Bell 206L-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 7 seats. It is registered to Del Rio Aviation INC, a corporation in Paso Robles, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 22, 2019 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 22, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206L-3 · all 206L-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 51166
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C30 SER · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A1D189 (octal 50350611)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 22, 2019
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 22, 1998
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00432586
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Del Rio Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5062 Wing Way
Paso Robles, CA 93446-9528
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N216TV, 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 Del Rio Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 22, 2019, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 51166 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N216TV 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 N216TV: Accident on December 1, 2011 at Wingate, NC: 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 certified flight instructor did not select an adequate landing site for the practice autorotation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA12CA095 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