Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1
N5017G is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Helimontana.Com LLC, an LLC in Livingston, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 16, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron
- Model
- 206L-1 · all 206L-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 45228
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C28 SER · 500 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A640FB (octal 51440373)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 6, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 6, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 16, 2017
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00960975
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Helimontana.Com LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 910
Livingston, MT 59047-0910
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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 N5017G, 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 Helimontana.Com LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 6, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 16, 2017, 38 years after the 1979 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45228 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5017G 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 N5017G: Accident on April 4, 2026 at Chimney Rock, MT: 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 206L-1 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain adequate clearance from the terrain while performing a low altitude circling takeoff maneuver, which resulted in a dynamic rollover.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR26LA146 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