Bell 206B
N431CA is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Chem-Air LLC, an LLC in Shreveport, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 22, 2016 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated June 17, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2517
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A52708 (octal 51223410)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 22, 2016
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · June 17, 2016
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00230945
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chem-Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7545 Haygood Rd
Shreveport, LA 71107-3506
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 3
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N431CA, 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 Chem-Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 22, 2016, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 17, 2016, 38 years after the 1978 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 2517 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N431CA was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B19 (serial 7472, cancelled May 27, 2009); Learjet Inc 23 (serial 23-030, cancelled September 20, 1978); Construcciones Aeronauticas Sa CASA-212-200 (serial 269, cancelled date not given). 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 N431CA: Accident on August 27, 2006 at Lexington, KY: fatal, destroyed (49 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: Bombardier, Inc. CRJ-100 · operated under 121
the flight crewmembers's failure to use available cues and aids to identify the airplane's location on the airport surface during taxi and their failure to cross-check and verify that the airplane was on the correct runway before takeoff. Contributing to the accident were the flight crew's nonpertinent conversation during taxi, which resulted in a loss of positional awareness, and the Federal Aviation Administration's failure to require that all runway crossings be authorized only by specific air traffic control clearances.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA06MA064 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