Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-4
N552AE is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2015. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation in O Fallon, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 6, 2016 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 24, 2015.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Air Evac EMS, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 7:53 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 206L-4 · all 206L-4s 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
- 52478
- 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-C30P · 650 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A706DE (octal 51603336)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 6, 2016
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 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 24, 2015
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01191572
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Evac Ems INC
- 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
- 1001 Boardwalk Springs Pl
O Fallon, MO 63368-4778
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
Connections how N552AE links to the rest of the register
- Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 1,455 registered
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 732 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Air Evac EMS, Inc. · charter operator
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C30P 25 aircraft with this engine series · 650 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Air Evac Ems INC 162 aircraft in the fleet
- O Fallon, MO 181 aircraft registered in this town
- Missouri 5,818 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 129 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 8,888 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 764 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C30P 645 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Blade, corroded · 2021-04-28
- Report filed on this aircraft: Blade, corroded · 2021-04-28
- Where N552AE is now · Last seen yesterday at 7:53 pm.
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The public federal record on N552AE, 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 Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 6, 2016, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 24, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52478 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N552AE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: American Eurocopter Llc MBB-BK 117 C-2 (serial 9248, cancelled June 17, 2009). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N552AE. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 22, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 22, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 22, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 22, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data