Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1
N39LR 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 Hornet LLC, an LLC in Picayune, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2016 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated June 15, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron
- Model
- 206L-1 · all 206L-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 45654
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C30P · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A4817A (octal 51100572)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 22, 2016
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · June 15, 2017
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00020564
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hornet LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 148 Runway Rd Ste F
Picayune, MS 39466-8341
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.
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The public federal record on N39LR, 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 Hornet LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 22, 2016, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 15, 2017, 36 years after the 1981 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45654 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N39LR 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]
1 NTSB record under N39LR: Accident on July 16, 2018 at New Castle, IN: 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 137
The pilot's failure to ensure that the fill hose was disconnected from the helicopter before takeoff, which resulted in the fill hose striking the tail rotor and the subsequent loss of tail rotor effectiveness. Contributing to the accident was inadequate communication between the ground crewman and the pilot.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA18CA424 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