Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1
N38885 is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1981. It has 7 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Berlin, Wisconsin. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 22, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron
- Model
- 206L-1 · all 206L-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 45726
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 250HP · 250 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A47C90 (octal 51076220)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- June 30, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 22, 1981
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00040504
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 20115 W Rustic Ridge Dr
New Berlin, WI 53146-3036
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 N38885, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 22, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45726 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N38885 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J5B (serial 5-1105, cancelled May 20, 1965). 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 N38885. 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