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A Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger, the same model family as N59AE
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026
N59AE

Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMissouri

N59AE is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation in O Fallon, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 18, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 3, 1979.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Air Evac EMS, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.

Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 7:09 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell Helicopter Textron
Model
206L-1 · all 206L-1s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A 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
45291
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
Fuel
Jet A
Seats
7
Year built
1979
Transponder code
A79B13 (octal 51715423)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 18, 2008
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 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 3, 1979
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00170193

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Air Evac Ems INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
1001 Boardwalk Springs Pl Ste 250
O Fallon, MO 63368-4100
Charter N59AE with Air Evac EMS, Inc.:

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.

Connections how N59AE links to the rest of the register

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Flies for
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Place
  • O Fallon, MO 180 aircraft registered in this town
  • Missouri 5,819 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N59AE, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 18, 2008, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated August 3, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45291 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N59AE according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N59AE. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data