Bell 206B
N297CA is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1974. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Helicopter Services Of Illinois LLC, an LLC in Fisher, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 17, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1453
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A30FAE (octal 50607656)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 16, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 25, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 17, 2010
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00503731
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Helicopter Services Of Illinois LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 527 County Road 3000 N
Fisher, IL 61843-9795
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N297CA, 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 Helicopter Services Of Illinois LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 16, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 17, 2010, 36 years after the 1974 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 1453 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N297CA 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]
2 NTSB records under N297CA: Accident on July 17, 2026 at Saint Joseph, IL: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 24, 2013 at St Louis, MO: 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26LA264 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 206B · operated under 091
The loss of engine power due to the separation of compressor blades, which resulted from fatigue cracking.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN13LA378 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