Bell 206-L4
N7898X is a Bell 206-L4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2004. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Rigid Aviation LLC, an LLC in Opelousas, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 2, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206-L4 · all 206-L4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 52299
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250 20&30 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- AAB57B (octal 52532573)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 14, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 2, 2004
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00129079
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rigid Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3091 Highway 104
Opelousas, LA 70570-1774
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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 N7898X, 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 Rigid Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 14, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 2, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52299 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7898X 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 N7898X: Accident on August 18, 2016 at Broussard, LA: 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 206 L4 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to attain a proper touchdown point, which resulted in the helicopter sliding off the aft end of the transport dolly.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA439 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