Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-4
N438AE is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2012. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation in O Fallon, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 31, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 206L-4 · all 206L-4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 52445
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C30P · 650 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A540DB (octal 51240333)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 30, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 31, 2012
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01106397
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Evac Ems INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1001 Boardwalk Springs Pl Ste 250
O Fallon, MO 63368-4100
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N438AE, 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 Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 30, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 31, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52445 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N438AE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh MBB-BK 117 C-2 (serial 9147, cancelled March 7, 2008). 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 N438AE. 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