Bell 206-L4
N83U is a Bell 206-L4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1995. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Helicopters INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 18, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206-L4 · all 206-L4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 52124
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C30 SER · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- AB57C3 (octal 52653703)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 24, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 18, 2000
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00065252
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3422 Old Capitol Trl Ste 321
Wilmington, DE 19808-6124
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N83U, 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 Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 24, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 18, 2000, 5 years after the 1995 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 52124 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N83U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dehavilland DHC-3 (serial 371, cancelled January 9, 1998). 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 N83U: Accident on September 20, 1986 at American River, AK: minor 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: De Havilland DHC-3 · operated under 135
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC86LA160 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