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N3173H

Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1

Valid Alabama

N3173H is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1982. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, a government body in Montgomery, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 27, 1982.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell Helicopter Textron
Model
206L-1 · all 206L-1s and related versions
Serial number
45714
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C28 SER · 500 hp
Seats
7
Year built
1982
Transponder code
A3639B (octal 50661633)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 14, 2015
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · October 27, 1982
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00071593

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Alabama Law Enforcement Agency
Type
Government
Address
4631 Richardson Rd
Montgomery, AL 36108-4830

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1965-03-23Engineering & Research ERCOUPE 415-C · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N3173H, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, a government body, certificate issued April 14, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated October 27, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45714 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3173H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Engineering & Research ERCOUPE 415-C (serial 3798, cancelled March 23, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3173H. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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