Bell 206B
N488BC is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1993. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Butte County Sheriffs Office, a government body in Oroville, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 2, 2015 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 6, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 5103
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1993
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A6066D (octal 51403155)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 2, 2015
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 6, 1993
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00314862
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Butte County Sheriffs Office
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 5 Gillick Way
Oroville, CA 95965-3595
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 N488BC, 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 Butte County Sheriffs Office, a government body, certificate issued October 2, 2015, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 6, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5103 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N488BC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell OH-58A (serial 70-15190, cancelled July 28, 2011). 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 N488BC. 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