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N117DR

Bell UH-1H

N117DR is a Bell UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1995. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Northwest Helicopters I INC, a corporation in Olympia, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2001 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; other, dated May 16, 1995.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
UH-1H · all UH-1Hs and related versions
Serial number
65-12871
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming T-53 SERIES · 1150 hp
Seats
15
Year built
1995
Transponder code
A0468F (octal 50043217)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 29, 2001
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Other · May 16, 1995
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00135212

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Northwest Helicopters I INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1000 85Th Ave SE
Olympia, WA 98501-5707

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N117DR, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Northwest Helicopters I INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 29, 2001, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; other, dated May 16, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65-12871 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N117DR according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N117DR. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data