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N14637

Hiller UH-12E

Valid Texas

N14637 is a Hiller UH-12E, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1993. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Fort Wolters Helicopter INC, a corporation in Mineral Wells, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 1998 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 21, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Hiller
Model
UH-12E · all UH-12Es and related versions
Serial number
1577
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-540 SERIES · 310 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1993
Cruising speed
72 mph
Transponder code
A0BBDB (octal 50135733)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 9, 1998
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 21, 1993
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00794812

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Fort Wolters Helicopter INC
Type
Corporation
Address
517 Grant Rd
Mineral Wells, TX 76067-8826

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

1956-02-14Aeronca C-3 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N14637, 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 Fort Wolters Helicopter INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 9, 1998, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 21, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1577 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N14637 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca C-3 (serial 523, cancelled February 14, 1956). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N14637: Accident on July 1, 1996 at Franklin, LA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

FTW96LA285Accident on July 1, 1996 at Franklin, LA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hiller UH12 · operated under 091

loss of engine power for undetermined reasons, and the pilot's failure to maintain rotor RPM. A factor was the unsuitable terrain available for the precautionary landing.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW96LA285 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 August 27, 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