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N78AM

Bell 206B

Valid Alaska

N78AM is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1989. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Bell206 LLC, an LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 29, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 2, 1989.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
206B · all 206Bs and related versions
Serial number
4060
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
Seats
5
Year built
1989
Cruising speed
112 mph
Transponder code
AA8E39 (octal 52507071)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 29, 2022
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · August 2, 1989
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00644602

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bell206 LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1335 Gambell St
Anchorage, AK 99501-4629

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N78AM, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Bell206 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 29, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated August 2, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4060 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N78AM according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N78AM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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