Bell 206L-3
N242FW is a Bell 206L-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1991. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Coastal Air Service INC, a corporation in Panama City, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; forest, dated October 10, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206L-3 · all 206L-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 51506
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C30 SER · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A237FF (octal 50433777)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2027
- Last FAA action
- September 6, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control; Forest · October 10, 2023
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00125511
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Coastal Air Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 7424 Coastal Dr
Panama City, FL 32404-4015
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 N242FW, 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 Coastal Air Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 12, 2020, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 10, 2023, 32 years after the 1991 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 51506 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N242FW 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 N242FW. 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