Bell Helicopter Textron 206B
N804LA is a Bell Helicopter Textron 206B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1971. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Southern Helicopter INC, a corporation in O Brien, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; other, dated November 29, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron
- Model
- 206B · all 206Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 680
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1971
- Transponder code
- AAF1B4 (octal 52570664)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control; Other · November 29, 2019
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00383698
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Helicopter INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 23430 73Rd Rd
O Brien, FL 32071-3717
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.
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The public federal record on N804LA, 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 Southern Helicopter INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 1, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 29, 2019, 48 years after the 1971 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 680 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N804LA 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 N804LA: Accident on August 10, 2013 at Albers, IL: 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 206B · operated under 091
Fuel contamination, which resulted in the loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN13LA487 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data