Bell 206B
N78906 is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2001. It has 5 seats. It is registered to King County Sheriffs Office, a government body in Seattle, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 7, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 15, 2001.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs 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
- 5277
- 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-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2001
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- AAB46C (octal 52532154)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 7, 2021
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 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 · October 15, 2001
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00274014
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- King County Sheriffs Office
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 516 3Rd Ave Ste W116
Seattle, WA 98104-2392
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 N78906 links to the rest of the register
- Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 1,454 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20 series 530 aircraft with this engine series · 420 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- King County Sheriffs Office 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Seattle, WA 1,550 aircraft registered in this town
- Boeing Fld/King County International · BFI
- Seattle-Tacoma International · SEA
- Kenmore Air Seaplane Base · W55
- Seattle Seaplanes · 0W0
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 129 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 8,888 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 764 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20 series 747 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Blade, dislodged · 2009-07-21
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The public federal record on N78906, 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 King County Sheriffs Office, a government body, certificate issued June 7, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 15, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5277 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78906 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20B (serial 1920, cancelled June 15, 1962). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N78906. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data