Bell 206B
N648CA is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1982. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Chem-Air LLC, an LLC in Shreveport, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 7, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 29, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3626
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A88326 (octal 52101446)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 7, 2009
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 29, 1982
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00182162
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chem-Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N648CA, 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 July 7, 2009, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 29, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3626 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N648CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15281455, cancelled August 14, 1998). 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 N648CA: Accident on September 24, 2015 at Woodville, TX: serious 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 137
The loss of engine power due to water contamination in the fuel system. Contributing to the accident were the pilot’s inadequate preflight inspection of the fuel tanks and the operator’s inadequate inspection of the fuel supply truck that did not detect water contamination.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN15LA423 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