Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1
N5007F is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Patriot Aviation INC, a non-citizen corporation in Greenville, Delaware. The FAA lists the registration as "non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports" (certificate issued July 19, 2017). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 14, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron
- Model
- 206L-1 · all 206L-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 45186
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 250HP · 250 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A63D43 (octal 51436503)
Registration
- Status
- Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2017
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- November 13, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 14, 1978
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00420945
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Patriot Aviation INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 3801 Kennett Pike Bldg C Ste 1
Greenville, DE 19807-2321
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 N5007F, 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.
Registration status is "Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 14, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45186 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5007F 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 N5007F: Accident on December 9, 2004 at Patterson, LA: 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 B206L-1 · operated under 091
The loss of engine power due to fuel starvation resulting from the pilot's failure to activate the fuel boost pumps prior to takeoff. A contributing factor was that the helicopter was at an airspeed and altiutude combination (below height/velocity curve) which precluded the pilot from executing a successful autorotation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW05CA044 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
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