Allison 250-C20 series

FAA incident reports · 468

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duckdb -csv -c "SELECT report_number, event_date, event_type, city, state, aircraft_make, aircraft_model, aircraft_damage, fatal_injuries, n_number
  FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/faa_incident_report.parquet'
  WHERE engine_model_code IN ('03020')
  ORDER BY event_date DESC, report_number DESC"

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Accident 20260523009559ABell 206-L4 · Cedar City, UTA helicopter pilot instructor (who was sitting in the right seat) and student flying a Bell 206L-4, with registration number [privacy data omitted], were located at the kcdc (Cedar City) airport, south ramp. Intending to taxi to the helipad via taxiway…May 23, 2026 · N917SU · DestroyedIncident 20250928012199IBell Helicopter Textron 206L-1 · Tusayan, AZOn September 28, 2025, a Bell 206 aircraft, departed on an air tour flight where the left engine couling separated from the aircraft. No other damage occurred. Prior to the flight, the pilot conducted a preflight ispection which included removing the cloth…Sep 28, 2025 · N178PA · Minor damageAccident 20240930015339AMcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E · Manvel, TXDuring an evaluation/check-ride flight on 30 September 2024. The pilot under evaluation who was the PIC was at the controls performing a practice autorotation to a grass strip. The crew had performed several practice autorotations prior. The CFI announced…Sep 30, 2024 · N8372F · Substantial damageAccident 20240926014629ABell 206L · Fern Prairie, WAOn September 26th the pilot was flying, from toutle, WA to boring Oregon single pilot, no cargo and 150 lbs of fuel. Around 4:00 pm the pilot experienced sudden onset severe/extreme main rotor vibration while in normal cruise flight at 1000 ft AGL and 95KTS.…Sep 26, 2024 · N9984K · Substantial damageAccident 20240907012279ABell 206B · King Salmon, AKOn September 7, 2024, about 0924 Alaska daylight time, a Bell 206B helicopter, [privacy data omitted], sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near King Salmon, Alaska. A passenger was fatally injured, the pilot and three passengers…Sep 7, 2024 · N306FW · Substantial damage · 1 fatalAccident 20240510005569AHughes 369D · Crestview, FLWhile performing full autorotation to landing the tail skid struck the ground, and while leveling the aircraft and reducing the collective the main rotor blades struck the tail boom causing the tail boom to shear off the aircraft approximately two feet from…May 10, 2024 · N969VS · Substantial damageAccident 20240125000379AMcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E · Wahiawa, HIThe pilot was taking off from a confined remote mountainside landing zone. During vertical takeoff, the helicopter drifted forward and the right skid hooked a fence that was in front of the landing zone. The helicopter rotated forward and impacted terrain.Jan 25, 2024 · N545PH · Substantial damageAccident 20230907010599AMcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E · Houston, TXPIC was giving an evaluation flight at kaxh. After several takeoffs and landings to rwy 27 the PIC initiated power recovery autorotations to rwy 27. The crew had completed three autorotations and were setting up for the fourth power recovery auto from 800'…Sep 7, 2023 · N8372F · Substantial damageIncident 20230801006589IMcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E · Paxson, AKPilot attempted sloped landing on downwind side of a ridge line at the top of a mountain slope with winds at 12-15 KTS gusting 23-25 KTS from wnw with 10 miles of visibility. There was also haze due to smoke from wild fires. The tail rotor damage was idenfied…Aug 1, 2023 · N808BH · Minor damageAccident 20230719008919AAerospatiale AS-355E Twin Star · Farmington, UTThe flight was to drop off a vegetation removal crew, who were contracted by rocky mountain power to remove vegetation surrounding power lines. Three did not speak english, so the fourth translated for them during the preflight briefing. The pilot has not…Jul 19, 2023 · N102UM · Substantial damageAccident 20230705011249ABell 206B · Chapman, KSOn 07/05/2023 with VFR weather, at 16:48 CST, the Kansas highway patrol reported aircraft [privacy data omitted], a Bell 206 helicopter, had crashed while spraying agricultural chemical in a corn field about 0.5 mile north of Chapman Kansas. There were no…Jul 5, 2023 · N67FA · Substantial damageIncident 20230201000159IMcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E · Honolulu, HIOn 2/1/2023, while conducting aerial survey for invasive plant species with one passenger on board, the PIC encountered a wire strike resulting in damage to 3 rotor blades. The PIC landed the aircraft without further incident.Feb 1, 2023 · N545PH · Minor damageIncident 20221126019119IMcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500N · Honolulu, HIPublic use aircraft performing coastline water patrol at approximately 100 feet when a wave rebounded off the cliff face into subject helicopter. Left side upper and lower wndishields damaged and water entered aircraft. Aircraft was flown back to base at hnl.Nov 26, 2022 · N302HF · Minor damageAccident 20221001020829ABell 206B · Fresno, CAOn Saturday, October 1, 2022, at approximately 1100 pacific daylight time (PDT), a Bell 206B jetranger who was on a “return to service” maintenance flight, was involved in an accident when the aircraft who just had departed from the Fresno yosemite…Oct 1, 2022 · N284CA · Substantial damageAccident 20220701005109ABell 206B · East Troy, WIThe accident occurred on July 01, 2022, at East Troy Airport (57C). N882NY, a Bell B206 helicopter, lost power during an attempted landing on a fuel bowser truck. The helicopter passed over the bowser and impacted the ground right side nose down and came to…Jul 1, 2022 · N882NY · Substantial damageAccident 20220624008519ABell 206B · Merced, CAOn June 24, 2022, at approximately 0927 PDT, N915B, a Bell 206B, helicopter experienced a hard landing while dispensing pesticides. The aircraft was in process of spraying a corn field when on completion of a pass the pilot heard a "snap" from behind and…Jun 24, 2022 · N915B · Substantial damageAccident 20220426002649ABell 206B · Winter Garden, FLOn 04/26/2022 at 0720 an aircraft performing aerial spraying of herbicide at lake apopka, Florida, contacted the lake nose down, causing the aircraft to flip over which caused the tailboom to separate from the fuselage resulting in substantial damage and…Apr 26, 2022 · N206BX · Substantial damageAccident 20220317001229AHughes 500D · Adair, IADuring flight operations helicopter engine entered a low power setting. Pilot was unable to maintain altitude and subsequently crashed.Mar 17, 2022 · N500MZ · DestroyedAccident 20220219001009AMcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500N · Newport Beach, CAOn 02/19/2022, approximately 18:30 pacific standard time, huntington Beach police helicopter, MD500N, N521HB, operating as a public aircraft, responded to a call near the lido peninsula in Newport Beach, CA. While performing right hand orbits over the scene…Feb 19, 2022 · N521HB · Substantial damage · 1 fatalAccident 20220209000919AHughes 369D · Bel Air, MDWeather was clear and calm. Aircraft engine suffered mechanical failure, causing loss of power. Pilot autorotated aircraft to vacant field. Main rotor blades severed the tail boom from the rest of the airframe. Pilot's statement indicated that: approximately…Feb 9, 2022 · N9159F · Substantial damageAccident 20211230021549ABell 206B · Livingston, TXOn 12/30/2021 N8AU might have crashed due to loss of tail rotor effectiveness (lte) in a pasture near Livingston Texas. Four people on board, one fatal, one seriously and 2 with minor injuries.Dec 30, 2021 · N8AU · Substantial damage · 1 fatalIncident 20210816014389IBell 206B · St. Augustine, FLPilot was taking off near golf course for mosquito control, during takeoff at approx. 30' the main rotor blades made contact with a bending tree top from windy conditions. Pilot immediately set helicopter down.Aug 16, 2021 · N874M · Minor damageAccident 20210804008749ABell 206B · Corydon, INOn August 4, 2021, at approximately 1435 eastern daylight time, a Bell 206B aircraft, N59552, landed in a corn field approximately 4.6 miles northeast of Corydon, Indiana. The commercial pilot sustained serious injuries and the aircraft sustained substantial…Aug 4, 2021 · N59552 · Substantial damageAccident 20210625006969AGarlick Helicopters OH-58A+ · Alpine, ALN372NS was conducting low level agricultural spraying when it struck power lines. After striking the power lines, the aircraft descended striking the ground, fatally injuring the pilot. The aircraft was destroyed upon impact.Jun 25, 2021 · N372NS · Substantial damage · 1 fatalAccident 20210618015959AMcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E · Ferndale, NYOn 06/18/2021 at approximately 8:15 am EST, a Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter, model 369E, registration number N371EE, s/n 0371E, certificated in the standard normal category was performing aerial power line work under part 133. The main rotor blade(s) made…Jun 18, 2021 · N371EE · Substantial damageAccident 20210215001469ABell 206B · Charlotte Amali, VIOn February 15, 2021, at or about 1514 atlantic standard time, N13AT was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near botany bay st. thomas, U.S. Virgin islands. The pilot and three passengers were fatally injured. The helicopter was operated as 14 code…Feb 15, 2021 · N13AT · Destroyed · 4 fatalAccident 20210204000139ABell Helicopter Textron Canada 206B · South Bay, FLOn February 4,2021 at aprox 0015L, N820H helicopter crashed while being used for rotor downwash of warm [privacy data omitted]onto corn crops, in order to maintain temperatures above 32 degree's fahrenheit. The pilot was on an eastbound pass, at flight level…Feb 4, 2021 · N820H · DestroyedIncident 20201102019099IAgusta A109C · Concord, CAIn cruise flight at 1000 feet AGL pilot noticed number one engine with a rapidly rising tot beyond permissible operating limits along with a decrease of engine torque. Pilot performed number one engine shutdown. Pilot performed an uneventful landing at the…Nov 2, 2020 · N162SH · No damageAccident 20201021015709ABell 206B · Point Outlook, NYN716VL departed kfrg on svfr and was reported as in the clouds and in distress through jfk tower. While jfk worked issue communication with aircraft was lost. Confirmation helicopter made emergency landing was received though nassau county police. Reports…Oct 21, 2020 · N716VL · Substantial damageAccident 20200711011209AAerospatiale AS 355F1 · Rifle, COAccording to the crewmember, the aircraft was in a hover for a few seconds while trying to decide which power line to observe. The aircraft started to sway left and right and then began rotating nose left. According to an eyewitness, the aircraft entered into…Jul 11, 2020 · N708AC · DestroyedAccident 20200530010849ABell 206B · Elko, NVAircraft landed for fuel on a CFR part 91 re position flight from kmlf to keko and to continue to Oregon to be delivered to new owner. Aircraft originated from cottonwood, Arizona. After refueling the pilot was departing and taxiing downwind when the wind…May 30, 2020 · N401HP · Substantial damageAccident 20200425006529AHughes 369D · Pylesville, MDAt approximately 12:40PM on 4/25/20 the aircraft was involved in repositioning a high tension power line via long line external load at approximately 150 ft AGL. The pilot reported a left yaw, engine out alarm, and hearing the engine winding down the pilot…Apr 25, 2020 · N9159F · Substantial damageAccident 20200201002999AHiller UH-12E · Dinosaur, COPilot and two passengers departed from the pilot?s home heading to one of the passenger?s ranch. Enroute and at about 700 ft AGL, the pilot heard a loud grinding sound and immediately lost engine power. The pilot initiated an auto-rotation to the ground and…Feb 1, 2020 · N7173S · Substantial damageAccident 20190504003939ABell 206B · Oxnard, CAOn may 4, 2019 N49643 s/n 1813, Bell helicopter 206B was equipted with agricultural equiptment (isolair model 3900 agricultural spray system). The tanks were placed on both sides of the fuselage and were filled with white wash type paint inorder to paint…May 4, 2019 · N49643 · DestroyedAccident 20190221011099AMcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E · Kukuihaele, HIAt approximately 06:45, the pilot just prior to his descent into his intended point of landing he noticed an engine temperature of 909C, 100% rotor and 0% torque. He quickly began to experience either an engine failure or under power setting from the engine.…Feb 21, 2019 · N506PH · Substantial damageAccident 20181102021389AHughes 369D · Mcdougal, AROn November 2, 2018 a MD369 helicopter N5187S/N454AR, S/N610968D operated by air 2 LLC certificate number X2RL798I crashed in Mcdougal Arkansas. At 1253, the poplar cartersville (pof), poplar bluff, Missouri, automated surface observation system, located 21…Nov 2, 2018 · N5187S · Destroyed · 1 fatalAccident 20181030021189AAerospatiale AS 355F2 · Beekmantown, NYOn 10/30/2018 at approximately 1630 N372CA an Aerospatiale AS355F2 operator while performing powerline inspection/repair operations with four persons on board contacted powerlines resulting in main rotorblade contact with utility pole. The aircraft became…Oct 30, 2018 · N372CA · Destroyed · 2 fatalAccident 20180818018519ABell 206B · Battle Mountain, NV8-18-2018 The aircraft was involved in an accident while conducting a chucker wildlife survey. The pilot stated while in close proximity to the ground a suspected micro burst caused the airspeed to indicate zero with a loss of control of the helicopter. The…Aug 18, 2018 · N8052G · DestroyedAccident 20180817014409AHughes 369D · Riverside, CAN105JL, a Hughes HU-369D helicopter with two pilots onboard (a CFI and rated private pilot helicopter) were conducting autorotation training. While practicing autorotations with a 180 degree turn to runway 34 at Riverside municipal airport (kral), N105JL made…Aug 17, 2018 · N105JL · Substantial damageAccident 20180630008949ABell 206B · Rio Grande, PROn jun 30, 2018 at 1623 hrs. (UTC), rotorcraft N10CV, a Bell 206B, departed from fernando luis Ribas Dominicci Airport (sig/tjig) in san juan, puerto rico, traveling to puerto del rey restaurant at fajardo, PR. At 1640 (UTC)the helicopter lost engine power…Jun 30, 2018 · N10CV · Substantial damage · 1 fatalIncident 20180420003889IBell 206B · Goleta, CAWhile operating under 14 CFR 137, the helicopter spray boom contacted a high tension powerline. The powerline caused minor damage to the spray boom and left landing skid.Apr 20, 2018 · N49643 · Minor damageIncident 20180315014599IBell Helicopter BH06 · Cropwell, ALInadvertant wire strike while engaged in law enforcement/sar. (Public use) Further examination revealed that in addition to the broken windsheild and cabin top sheet metal damage, the aircraft also suffered main rotor blade strike damage.Mar 15, 2018 · N501JS · Minor damageAccident 20180201001939AHughes Helicopters HU-369-E · Wrightwood, CAN618SG, a HU369E on a part 135 revenue flight, lost control during its landing approach just prior to touchdown at a 8300 ft MSL mountain landing zone (lz) near Wrightwood ski resort. N618SG rolled over after contacting the ground sustaining substantial…Feb 1, 2018 · N618SG · Substantial damageAccident 20180127001639AHughes 369D · Pomeroy, WAOn January 27, 2018 a Hughes 369D with the registration number N369TH crashed while performing animal tagging using the net gun method (mule deer) for the state of Washington state department of fish and wildlife. The aircraft crashed under unknown…Jan 27, 2018 · N369TH · Substantial damage · 1 fatalAccident 20180111000739AHughes 369D · Naguabo, PRThe pilot in command (PIC) worked for high line helicopters, LLC (operator), and the linemen worked for arc American, inc (arc), an Indiana based power line restoration company. The mission for that day was to install insulators and pick up wire to the…Jan 11, 2018 · N571HH · No damageIncident 20171205022709IBell BHT-407 · Watkins, COOn December 5, 2017 at 1437 hours, a Bell helicopter model 407, N686AM, serial number 53160, sustained minor damages, following a hard landing, while performing a routine maintenance check flight autorotation, at Front Range Airport (ftg) in Watkins,…Dec 5, 2017 · N686AM · Minor damageAccident 20171107016689ABell 206B · Rolling Fork, MSPilot suddenly felt the aircraft yaw To the right and then go left, pilot nosed the aircraft up and to the right to get out of the river and clear the line of trees on the bank. Pilot impacted the ground. Main rotor blade cut tail boom off on impact.Nov 7, 2017 · N93PH · Substantial damageAccident 20170811024769ASchweizer 269D · Long Beach, CAAugust 11, 2017 maintenance personnel were performing engine run to check out helicopter rotor transmission which was just installed following overhaul. As mainteance personnel increased engine RPM to approximately 80 % the helicopter began to bounce…Aug 11, 2017 · N2086N · Substantial damageAccident 20170810010359AHughes 369D · Villa Grove, COOn August 10, 2017 a huges 369D helicopter inadvertently contacted a powerline pole with its tail rotor, causing a loss of control and impacted the ground. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The pilot was the only occupant onboard and sustained serious…Aug 10, 2017 · N58424 · Substantial damageAccident 20170630024009ABell 206B · Uniontown, KYThe pilot was applying chemicals to a corn field parallel to a powerline. Approaching an intersecting powerline, the pilot pulled up to turn when his right spray boom contacted the intersecting wire. Upon contact with the wire, the fuselage pitched, causing…Jun 30, 2017 · N60KH · Substantial damage
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