Bell 206-L4
N988B is a Bell 206-L4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2005. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Heli Works Flight Services LLC, an LLC in Deer Lodge, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 24, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206-L4 · all 206-L4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 52304
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250 20&30 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- ADC8F5 (octal 53344365)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 24, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00158799
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heli Works Flight Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1620 W Peterson Ave
Deer Lodge, MT 59722-2002
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 N988B, 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 Heli Works Flight Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 13, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 24, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52304 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N988B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 47G-2 (serial 1416, cancelled August 27, 1975). 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 N988B: Accident on April 26, 2024 at Anaconda, MT: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 206-L4 · operated under 137
A total loss of engine power due to a loss of cooling oil to the turbine-to-compressor coupling shaft and subsequent fracture of the shaft at an altitude too low for the pilot to complete a successful autorotation. Contributing to the accident was carbon buildup in the piccolo tube screen and nozzles and the disintegration of the spur adapter gearshaft O-rings for reasons that could not be determined.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24FA132 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