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N469AE

Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-4

Valid Missouri

N469AE is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2015. 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 June 30, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 4, 2016.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
Model
206L-4 · all 206L-4s and related versions
Serial number
52480
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C30P · 650 hp
Seats
5
Year built
2015
Transponder code
A5BB0F (octal 51335417)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 30, 2023
Expires
June 30, 2030
Last FAA action
June 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 4, 2016
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01193081

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 2

2008-08-08American Eurocopter Llc MBB-BK 117 C-2 · Valid registration
2002-11-15Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC135P1 · exported to Indonesia · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N469AE, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 30, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 4, 2016, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52480 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N469AE was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: American Eurocopter Llc MBB-BK 117 C-2 (serial 9168, cancelled August 8, 2008); Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC135P1 (serial 0185, cancelled November 15, 2002). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N469AE: Accident on February 12, 2022 at Eldorado, IL: serious injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CEN22LA122Accident on February 12, 2022 at Eldorado, IL: serious injuries, minor damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 206 · operated under 135

Overheating of two lithium batteries in the paramedic’s flight suit pocket resulting in an explosion and fire that seriously injured the paramedic as the helicopter was about to take off.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA122 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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