Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1
N3176L is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1983. It has 7 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Lake Mary, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 16, 2006 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 25, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron
- Model
- 206L-1 · all 206L-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 45648
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C28 SER · 500 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A36407 (octal 50662007)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 16, 2006
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 25, 1983
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00731623
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Riggs Bobby W
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 4534 Falling Acorn Cir
Lake Mary, FL 32746-4757 - Co-owners
- Riggs Rock A
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3176L, 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 Riggs Bobby W, a co-owned, certificate issued August 16, 2006, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 25, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45648 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3176L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 310J (serial 310J-0176, cancelled June 30, 1970). 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]
1 NTSB record under N3176L: Accident on February 15, 2015 at Sevierville, TN: 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 091
An uncontained engine failure, which resulted from insufficient lubrication of the No. 4 bearing due to carbon buildup on the filter screen of the bearing's oil supply nozzle.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA15LA138 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