# STC SH1968SO

- Type: Supplemental type certificate
- Status: Current, Reissued
- Holder: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., United States
- Description: Installation of Quick-Mount Kit to modify the existing nose-mounted Spectrolab Nightsun SX-16C Searchlight ass to a Quick- mount configuration or a quick-mount kit for the FLIR Systems, Inc. Model 2000- Series thermal imager to mount to the lower fuslage.
- Applied: June 1, 1986
- Status date: May 29, 2013
- Product: Aircraft, Rotorcraft
- Certification basis: Part 21
- Data sheets: [TCDS H2SW](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/H2SW)
- Certificate PDF: https://openairdocs.org/files/sha256/49/8c/498cc6b98a13b30e12a1099380178f19cd4f50740eea14f3efcaec7465d1a782
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/70599A7B9C51569486257C13006041A4.0001
- DRS record last changed: December 5, 2025
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/stc/SH1968SO

## ADs that name it (0)

None.

## Approved models (6)

- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Limited 206A ([TCDS H2SW](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/H2SW))
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Limited 206B ([TCDS H2SW](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/H2SW))
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Limited 206L ([TCDS H2SW](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/H2SW))
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Limited 206L-1 ([TCDS H2SW](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/H2SW))
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Limited 206L-3 ([TCDS H2SW](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/H2SW))
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Limited 206L-4 ([TCDS H2SW](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/H2SW))

## What the certificate says

Read from the PDF's text layer, without the form's printed wording; the layout is lost and the order can differ. The PDF is the record.

N umber SH1968SO This certificate issued to

Part 6 of the Civil Air R egulations .

Original Product -- Type Certificate N umber :

Installation of a Quick-Mount Kit to modify an existing Nose-Mounted Spectrolab Nightsun SX-16C Searchlight Assembly to a Quick-Mount configuration or a Quick-Mount Kit for the Spectrolab Nightsun SX-16 Searchlight Assembly to mount to the lower fuselage in accordance with Aeronautical Accessories, Inc. Report No. AA-86007, Drawing List, Quick-Mount Bracket Assembly for Bell 206A/B/L/L-1/L-3/L-4 Model Helicopters, Revision “L”, dated June 22, 1994, or later FAA approved revision.

The approval of this change applies basically to Bell Models 206A/B/L/L-1/L-3/L-4. If the holder agrees to permit another person to use this certificate to alter a product, the holder must give the other person written evidence of that permission.

Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc.

441 Industrial Park Road Piney Flats, TN 37686 H2SW M ake : Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Limited M odel : 206A, 206B, 206L, 206L-1, 206L-3, 206L-4 Date of application : June 1, 1986

Date of issuance : August 1, 1986

Date reissued : May 29, 2013

Date amended : October 9, 1990;

October 5, 1992; July 1, 1994

B y direction of the A dministrator

(Signature) Scott A. Horn, Acting Manager, Rotorcraft Certification Office, Southwest Region

(Title)

FAA Form 8110-2-1(10-69) Page 2 of 2

## Every issue (1)

- May 29, 2013: Reissued, Current. [certificate](https://openairdocs.org/files/sha256/49/8c/498cc6b98a13b30e12a1099380178f19cd4f50740eea14f3efcaec7465d1a782)

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