Bell 206B
N231RL is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1974. It has 5 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Creston, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 28, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1324
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A20DB9 (octal 50406671)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 7, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · March 28, 1974
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00201052
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nor Wes INC
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1945 Cherry Street Rd
Creston, IA 50801-8174 - Co-owners
- Trost Farms LLC
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N231RL, 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 Nor Wes INC, a co-owned, certificate issued September 7, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 28, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1324 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N231RL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech B200 (serial BB868, cancelled April 9, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N231RL: Accident on July 30, 2023 at Denison, IA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on December 18, 1995 at Ingleside, TX: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 206B · operated under 137
The pilot’s inflight distraction, which resulted in his failure to see and avoid wires.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 200 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper decision, while evading law enforcement personnel during an illegal/unauthorized operation.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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