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A Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger, the same model family as N545SA
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026
N545SA

Bell 206L-3

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesCalifornia
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N545SA is a Bell 206L-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1983. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Shier Aviation CORP, a corporation in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2001 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 28, 1983.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Shier Aviation Corp, so it can be flown for hire.

Where is it now Last seen October 14 at 2:48 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
206L-3 · all 206L-3s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A 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
51063
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-C30 SER · 650 hp
Fuel
Jet A
Seats
7
Year built
1983
Transponder code
A6EC10 (octal 51566020)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
May 15, 2001
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
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 · October 28, 1983
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00601903

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Shier Aviation CORP
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
3753 John J Montgomery Dr Ste 2
San Diego, CA 92123-1712

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 N545SA, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Shier Aviation CORP, a corporation, certificate issued May 15, 2001, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated October 28, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 51063 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N545SA according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N545SA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data