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N88BD

Bell 206-L4

Valid Illinois

N88BD is a Bell 206-L4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2004. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Southern Illinois Helicopters LLC, an LLC in Marion, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 31, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated April 30, 2026.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
206-L4
Serial number
52285
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C30 SER · 650 hp
Seats
7
Year built
2004
Transponder code
AC1B99 (octal 53015631)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 31, 2019
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Research and development · April 30, 2026
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00108999

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Southern Illinois Helicopters LLC
Type
LLC
Address
2405 Black Diamond Dr
Marion, IL 62959-5279

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 2

2013-11-04Cessna 150H · Registration expired, pending cancellation
1977-02-11Enstrom F-28A · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data