Bell 206B
N501JS is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1995. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Shelby County Sheriffs Office, a government body in Columbiana, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2015 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 31, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 5195
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1995
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A63E80 (octal 51437200)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2015
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 31, 1995
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00814842
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shelby County Sheriffs Office
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 380 Mcdow Rd
Columbiana, AL 35051-9618
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N501JS, 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 Shelby County Sheriffs Office, a government body, certificate issued August 14, 2015, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 31, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5195 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N501JS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-400 (serial AT4000485, cancelled March 28, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N501JS: Accident on July 2, 1996 at Huffman, TX: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on June 18, 1984 at Portland, AR: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor AT-400 · operated under 137
corroded flight control components, due to the operator's inadequate maintenance and inspection of the airplane; the pilot's failure to follow procedures and directives, by flying the airplane without proper maintenance and annual inspection; and subsequent failure of a corroded flight control component.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW96FA288 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Snow AT400 · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC84LA178 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