Bell 206B
N6401X is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1999. It has 5 seats. It is registered to City Of Memphis, a government body in Memphis, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2000 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 4, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 4522
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20J · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1999
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A867CC (octal 52063714)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 14, 2000
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 4, 2004
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00625802
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- City Of Memphis
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 4517 O K Robertson Rd
Memphis, TN 38127-2213 - Co-owners
- Police Dept
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N6401X, 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 City Of Memphis, a government body, certificate issued February 14, 2000, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 4, 2004, 5 years after the 1999 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 4522 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6401X according to the deregistered file. [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 N6401X: Accident on May 30, 2010 at Memphis, TN: 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 PUBU
The pilot’s failure to maintain adequate rotor rpm and the certificated flight instructor’s delayed remedial action, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA10TA292 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