Bell 206B
N57EF is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1971. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Ck Helicopters LLC, an LLC in Jasper, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 31, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 660
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A74C7A (octal 51646172)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 21, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 31, 2011
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01061687
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ck Helicopters LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1240 W 400N
Jasper, IN 47546-8655
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N57EF, 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 Ck Helicopters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 21, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 31, 2011, 40 years after the 1971 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 660 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N57EF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31P (serial 31P-7400215, cancelled February 23, 2005). 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 N57EF: Accident on August 20, 2004 at Clarkson, NY: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Piper PA-31P · operated under 091
The pilot's mismanagement of the fuel by his failure to select the proper fuel tank which resulted in starvation and subsequent loss of engine power in both engines.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD04FA040 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