Bell 206B-III
N41WE is a Bell 206B-III, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 5 seats. It is registered to Eastward Aviation INC, a corporation in Eagle Lake, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 18, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 1, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B-III · all 206B-IIIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3850
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4D3C0 (octal 51151700)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 18, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 1, 2015
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00781335
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eastward Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 322 E Airline Ave
Eagle Lake, TX 77434-1463
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N41WE, 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 Eastward Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 18, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3850 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N41WE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech E-90 (serial LW-280, cancelled August 10, 2006). 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 N41WE: Accident on January 12, 2005 at Rawlins, WY: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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: Beech BE-90 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadvertent flight into adverse weather [severe icing] conditions, resulting in an aerodynamic stall impact with rising, mountainous terrain during approach. A factor contributing to the accident was the pilot's inadequate planning for the forecasted icing conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN05FA051 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