Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-4
N55SL is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 206L-4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2007. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Helicopters INC, a corporation in Cahokia, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2007 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 25, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 206L-4 · all 206L-4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 52347
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C30P · 650 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A6FEAD (octal 51577255)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 2007
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 25, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00290349
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- St Louis Downtown Airport
5000 Omega Dr
Cahokia, IL 62206
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 N55SL, 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 Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 24, 2007, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 25, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52347 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N55SL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gates Learjet 25D (serial 219, cancelled November 20, 2000). 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]
1 NTSB record under N55SL: Accident on May 21, 2014 at Beverly, MA: 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 Canada 206 L4 · operated under 091
Maintenance personnel’s inadequate inspection of the engine’s outer combustion case, which resulted in the failure of the case due to fatigue cracks that initiated on the inside surface of the case and the subsequent total loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA14LA248 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