The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily · Carbon Free Flight by 2050
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 2, 2026
N249TH

Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1

Valid Oregon

N249TH is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1980. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Timberland Helicopters INC, a corporation in Ashland, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 26, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell Helicopter Textron
Model
206L-1 · all 206L-1s and related versions
Serial number
45459
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C28B · 500 hp
Seats
7
Year built
1980
Transponder code
A2531F (octal 50451437)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 29, 2023
Expires
June 30, 2030
Last FAA action
June 29, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · June 26, 1980
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00490636

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Timberland Helicopters INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 1345
Ashland, OR 97520-0045

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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N249TH, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Timberland Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 29, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated June 26, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45459 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N249TH according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N249TH. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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