Bell 206-L4
N317 is a Bell 206-L4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1993. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Magic Carpet Aviation LLC, an LLC in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 15, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206-L4 · all 206-L4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 52014
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C30 SER · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- A360D1 (octal 50660321)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 15, 1994
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00218218
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Magic Carpet Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 460025
San Antonio, TX 78246-0025
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 4
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The public federal record on N317, 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 Magic Carpet Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 13, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 15, 1994, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52014 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N317 was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Cessna 402C (serial 402C0258, cancelled October 29, 2013); Aero Commander 680-E (serial 680E-705-20, cancelled March 23, 1960); North American SNJ-4 (serial 9562, cancelled July 14, 1948). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N317. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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