Bell 206B
N48HH is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1982. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Varney Aviation LLC, an LLC in Bangor, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 4, 2014 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 19, 1982.
Where is it now Last seen October 30 at 3:52 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 3620
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A5E6F7 (octal 51363367)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 4, 2014
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 19, 1982
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00722092
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Varney Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 32 Oak St
Bangor, ME 04401-6515
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.
Connections how N48HH links to the rest of the register
- Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 1,453 registered
- Bell 3,079 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20 series 530 aircraft with this engine series · 420 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Varney Aviation LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Bangor, ME 54 aircraft registered in this town
- Bangor International · BGR
- Lucky Landing Marina Seaplane Base · 06B
- Maine 1,425 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 129 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 8,889 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 764 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20 series 747 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bladder, leaking · 2013-06-27
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fuel Control, failed · 1997-09-30
- Where N48HH is now · Last seen October 30 at 3:52 pm.
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The public federal record on N48HH, 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 Varney Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 4, 2014, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 19, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3620 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N48HH according to the deregistered file. [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 N48HH. 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 November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data