Bell 206 JetRanger / LongRanger — U.S. Fleet History Data
Helicopter · 1,450 aircraft on the U.S. registry · built 1954–2018
NTSB records whose airframe serial does not match the aircraft currently holding the registration are excluded, as are service difficulty reports filed while a registration belonged to a different aircraft. U.S. registrations get reused; these counts are reconciled to the airframes actually in this fleet.
Where this fleet reports maintenance difficulties
FAA Service Difficulty Reports filed against Bell 206 JetRanger / LongRanger airframes, grouped by JASC system chapter — a factual picture of what mechanics actually report on this type.
- 53 — Fuselage : 172 reports
- 62 — Main Rotor : 114 reports
- 34 — Navigation : 92 reports
- 63 — Main Rotor Drive : 82 reports
- 72 — Engine : 82 reports
Recent airworthiness directives matched to this type
- AD 2023-06-05 (recurring) · effective 2023-05-19 — loss of tail rotor (TR) drive due to a failure of an adhesively bonded joint between an adapter and a tube on one of the segmented TR drive shaft (TRDS) assembl
- AD 2022-20-04 · effective 2022-12-23 — removing certain nuts from service
- AD 2021-24-15 (recurring) · effective 2022-01-18 — reports of damage to the drive ring spline teeth and the mating spline teeth
- AD 2021-19-01 · effective 2021-10-13 — report of a shoulder harness seat belt comfort clip (comfort clip) interfering with the seat belt inertia reel
- AD 2021-15-06 · effective 2021-08-27 — report that a certain tail rotor disc assembly, sold as an alternate part, does not conform to the approved configuration
ADs published since 2001 in our Federal Register database — the full list of directives applicable to an older airframe is longer; build it at drs.faa.gov. Open/superseded status reflects our last sync. Compliance for a specific airframe can only be verified in its logbooks — that's exactly what our per-aircraft report flags.
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