Bell 206B
N59604 is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1974. It has 5 seats. It is registered to East End Helicopter LLC, an LLC in Oak Ridge, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 5, 2008 and expires on July 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1490
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 400HP · 400 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A7B626 (octal 51733046)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 5, 2008
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00822005
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- East End Helicopter LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5926 Tarleton Dr
Oak Ridge, NC 27310-9632
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 1
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The public federal record on N59604, 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 East End Helicopter LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 5, 2008, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1490 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N59604 according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 3, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N59604: Accident on April 17, 1998 at Cameron, LA: 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 206B · operated under 135
The loss of engine power for undetermined reasons and the pilot's improper flare which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW98LA187 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