Bell 206B
N49660 is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1975. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rio Linda, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 26, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1825
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 400HP · 400 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A629A5 (octal 51424645)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 26, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00240715
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Provell Chris J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1213 E St
Rio Linda, CA 95673-5132
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 N49660, 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 Provell Chris J, an individual, certificate issued December 26, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1825 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N49660 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 N49660: Accident on September 24, 2015 at Ozark, AL: 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 206 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from terrain while hovering, which resulted in the helicopter's skid impacting terrain, subsequent abnormal airframe vibrations, and a hard landing during the subsequent hovering autorotation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA15LA296 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