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Bell 206B
N573CA is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1975. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Chem-Air LLC, an LLC in Shreveport, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 7, 1986 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 5, 1975.
Where is it now Last seen October 9 at 4:37 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs 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
- 1785
- 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 SER 400HP · 400 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A759C1 (octal 51654701)
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 7, 1986
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 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 · August 5, 1975
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00781331
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chem-Air LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7545 Haygood Rd
Shreveport, LA 71107-3506
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 N573CA links to the rest of the register
- Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 1,453 registered
- Bell 3,079 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250 series 446 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Chem-Air LLC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Shreveport, LA 275 aircraft registered in this town
- Shreveport Downtown Airport · DTN
- Shreveport Regional · SHV
- Louisiana 3,734 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 129 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 8,889 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 764 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Hose, loose · 1999-08-25
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fuse Pins, cracked · 1997-06-10
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fuel Control, out of adjust · 1997-05-28
- Where N573CA is now · Last seen October 9 at 4:37 pm.
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The public federal record on N573CA, 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 Chem-Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 7, 1986, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 5, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1785 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N573CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 757-23APF (serial 24971, cancelled January 13, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N573CA. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data