Bell 206
N55BL is a Bell 206, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1987. It has 4 seats. It is registered to North Wind Aviation LLC, an LLC in Cottage Grove, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2017 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 20, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206 · all 206s and related versions
- Serial number
- 3989
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1987
- Cruising speed
- 99 mph
- Transponder code
- A6FD36 (octal 51576466)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 2017
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · May 20, 2013
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00233498
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- North Wind Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 520 Palmer Ave
Cottage Grove, OR 97424-9633
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 N55BL, 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 North Wind Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 12, 2017, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 20, 2013, 26 years after the 1987 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 3989 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N55BL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lefaivre STARDUSTER TOO (serial 965, cancelled July 20, 1992). 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 N55BL. 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 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