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.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Northern Air Ventures, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron
- Model
- 206L-1 · all 206L-1s 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
- 45228
- 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-C28 SER · 500 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A640FB (octal 51440373)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 6, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 6, 2025
- 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 · May 16, 2017
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00960975
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Helimontana.Com 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
- PO Box 910
Livingston, MT 59047-0910
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 N5017G links to the rest of the register
- Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 1,453 registered
- Bell Helicopter Textron 191 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Northern Air Ventures, LLC · charter operator
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C28 series 43 aircraft with this engine series · 500 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Helimontana.Com LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Livingston, MT 50 aircraft registered in this town
- Mission Field · LVM
- Montana 6,047 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
- Report filed on this aircraft: Cylinder, leaking · 1999-02-23
- Report filed on this aircraft: Indicator, sticks · 1998-06-08
- Report filed on this aircraft: Boost Pump, inoperative · 1998-06-04
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data