Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1
N303AE is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 7 seats. It is registered to North Wind Aviation LLC, an LLC in Cottage Grove, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 5, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 20, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron
- Model
- 206L-1 · all 206L-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 45348
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 250HP · 250 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A32A7C (octal 50625174)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 5, 2018
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 20, 1979
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00271490
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- North Wind Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 520 Palmer Ave
Cottage Grove, OR 97424-9633
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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 N303AE, 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 North Wind Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 5, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 20, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45348 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N303AE 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 N303AE: Accident on August 27, 2021 at Glide, OR: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1 · operated under 137
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from a tree during an aerial application.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR21LA333 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