Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-4
N490AE is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2006. 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 April 15, 2011 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 18, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 206L-4 · all 206L-4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 52336
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C30P · 650 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A6101D (octal 51410035)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2011
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 18, 2006
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00270849
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.
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The public federal record on N490AE, 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 April 15, 2011, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 18, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52336 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N490AE 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]
1 NTSB record under N490AE: Accident on October 17, 2023 at Mitchell, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-4 · operated under 135
The inflight collision with a bird while in cruise flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA017 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data