Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1
N7978K is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1982. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Mowata Farms LLC, an LLC in Mamou, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 15, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron
- Model
- 206L-1 · all 206L-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 45492
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C30P · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- AAD580 (octal 52552600)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2021
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 15, 2021
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00751583
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mowata Farms LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2582 Everton Rd
Mamou, LA 70554-4750
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N7978K, 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 Mowata Farms LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 12, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 15, 2021, 39 years after the 1982 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 45492 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7978K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 95-B55 (T42A) (serial TC-692, cancelled July 24, 2001). 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 N7978K. 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 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