Bell 206-L4
N71HM is a Bell 206-L4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1994. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Summit Helicopters INC, a corporation in Salem, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 26, 2013 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated August 5, 2014.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Summit Helicopters, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen October 29 at 10:50 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206-L4 · all 206-L4s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA 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
- 52114
- 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 · Rolls-Royc 250-C30P · 650 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A97A6F (octal 52275157)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 26, 2013
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 5, 2014
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00645172
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Summit Helicopters 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
- PO Box 909
Salem, VA 24153-0909
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
Connections how N71HM links to the rest of the register
- Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 1,453 registered
- Bell 3,080 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Summit Helicopters, Inc. · charter operator
- Rolls-Royce 250-C30P 151 aircraft with this engine series · 650 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Summit Helicopters INC 15 aircraft in the fleet
- Salem, VA 53 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,973 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 129 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 8,889 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 764 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce 250-C30P 16 airworthiness directives
- Where N71HM is now · Last seen October 29 at 10:50 am.
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The public federal record on N71HM, 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 Summit Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 26, 2013, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 5, 2014, 20 years after the 1994 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 52114 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N71HM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mccoy Hugh BD-5 (serial 2061, cancelled May 27, 1992). 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 N71HM: Accident on May 20, 1989 at Farmington, NM: 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: Mccoy BD-5 · operated under 091
THE MALFUNCTION OF THE AIRCRAFT ELECTRICAL SYSTEM DUE TO A FAULTY CIRCUIT BREAKER. THE SUBSEQUENT FAILURE OF THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM RESULTED IN FAILURE OF THE ENGINE IGNITION SYSTEM AND LOSS OF ENGINE POWER.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data