Bell 206L-3
N288AE is a Bell 206L-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1989. 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 September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 8, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206L-3 · all 206L-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 51327
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C30 SER · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- A2EBB8 (octal 50565670)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 26, 2005
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 8, 1990
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00125001
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.
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The public federal record on N288AE, 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 September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 8, 1990, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 51327 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N288AE 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 N288AE: Accident on August 6, 2023 at Carthage, IL: 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 206 · operated under 135
A collision with a fence during landing due to the crew’s reduced distance estimation and depth perception while using night vision goggles. Contributing to the accident was the low moon angle, which made viewing the fence more challenging.
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- 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