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Bell UH-1B
N102FW is a Bell UH-1B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 6 seats. It is registered to Sierra Aeronautics LLC, an LLC in Franklin, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 27, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; patrolling, dated November 13, 1987.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- UH-1B · all UH-1Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 62-1905
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming T53-L-13 · 1400 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A00CB4 (octal 50006264)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 27, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 27, 2024
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; PatrollingFAA certificate purpose code 125 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 13, 1987
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00613006
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sierra Aeronautics LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 40 Sulphur Spring Church Rd
Franklin, KY 42134-8569
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.
Connections how N102FW links to the rest of the register
- Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 400 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming T53-L-13 62 aircraft with this engine series · 1400 hp
- Sierra Aeronautics LLC 20 aircraft in the fleet
- Franklin, KY 34 aircraft registered in this town
- Kentucky 2,985 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 33 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 118 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 31 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Blade, debonded · 1996-10-22
- Report filed on this aircraft: Blade, debonded · 1996-10-22
- Report filed on this aircraft: Blade, corroded · 1996-10-17
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N102FW.json.
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The public federal record on N102FW, 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 Sierra Aeronautics LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 27, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; patrolling; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 62-1905 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N102FW 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N102FW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data