Bell 206L
N9984K is a Bell 206L, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1976. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Jl Aviation INC, a corporation in Boring, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2012 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for limited; restricted; aerial surveying, dated January 14, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 206L · all 206Ls and related versions
- Serial number
- 45054
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- ADF349 (octal 53371511)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2012
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Limited; Restricted; Aerial surveying · January 14, 2000
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00763300
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jl Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 33025 SE Brooks Rd
Boring, OR 97009-8703
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 N9984K, 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 Jl Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 27, 2012, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 14, 2000, 24 years after the 1976 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 45054 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9984K 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 N9984K: Accident on September 26, 2024 at Fern Prairie, WA: 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 206L · operated under 091
An aeroelastic interaction between the helicopter’s main rotor blades and nodal beam system, which resulted in oscillations that exceeded the design limits of the tailboom. Contributing to the accident was the failure of the main rotor blade manufacturer to adequately publish the appropriate recovery technique for a known flight dynamics issue.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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