Bell 206B
N78ME is a Bell 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1981. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Elliott Enterprises Group LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 29, 2016 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 18, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3442
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- AA8F45 (octal 52507505)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 29, 2016
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 18, 1996
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00841362
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elliott Enterprises Group LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1013 Centre Rd Ste 403A
Wilmington, DE 19805-1270
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N78ME, 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 Elliott Enterprises Group LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 29, 2016, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 18, 1996, 15 years after the 1981 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 3442 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78ME was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Rogers Mark C RAF 2000 GTX SE (serial H2-97-8-289, cancelled December 2, 2005); Eskildsen ME ONE (serial 4, cancelled April 29, 1991). 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 N78ME: Accident on December 12, 1999 at Franklin, NY: 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: Rogers RAF 2000 · operated under 091
was the pilot's failure to abort the takeoff due to inadequate rotor rpm.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD00LA013 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