Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1
N27AE is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation in O Fallon, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 26, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 20, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron
- Model
- 206L-1 · all 206L-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 45192
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 400HP · 400 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A2A428 (octal 50522050)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 26, 2005
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 20, 1978
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00310945
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Evac Ems INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1001 Boardwalk Springs Pl Ste 250
O Fallon, MO 63368-4100
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N27AE, 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 Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 26, 2005, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 20, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45192 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N27AE was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 206L-3 (serial 51141, cancelled September 28, 1998); Piper PA-34-200T (serial 347970509, cancelled date not given). 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 N27AE: Accident on January 31, 2003 at West Plains, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 24, 1998 at Springdale, AR: serious 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 206L-1 · operated under 091
The excessive descent rate that required an abrupt flare, resulting in the main rotor severing the tailboom.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI03LA062 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 206L-3 · operated under 091
The failure of maintenance personnel to properly assemble the engine's accessory gearbox, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to partial blockage of the main oil passage by an o-ring. The blockage reduced oil flow to the turbine shafting, which led to the total failure of the gas producer turbine shaft and the power (free) turbine shaft. A factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW98FA239 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