Bell 206-L4
N357SP is a Bell 206-L4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1996. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Louisiana Department Of Public Safety, a government body in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 25, 1996 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 29, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206-L4 · all 206-L4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 52161
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C30 SER · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A4006C (octal 51000154)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 25, 1996
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 29, 1996
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00085711
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Louisiana Department Of Public Safety
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 7919 Independence Blvd # A-1
Baton Rouge, LA 70806-6409 - Co-owners
- State Police
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N357SP, 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 Louisiana Department Of Public Safety, a government body, certificate issued April 25, 1996, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 29, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52161 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N357SP 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N357SP. 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