Hiller UH-12E
N146ET is a Hiller UH-12E, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Four Creeks Aviation INC, a corporation in Visalia, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated August 31, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- UH-12E · all UH-12Es and related versions
- Serial number
- HA3046
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Allison 250 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 72 mph
- Transponder code
- A0B970 (octal 50134560)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 9, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest · August 31, 1988
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00631750
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Four Creeks Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 35900 Road 112
Visalia, CA 93291-9518
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.
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The public federal record on N146ET, 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 Four Creeks Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 9, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 31, 1988, 12 years after the 1976 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial HA3046 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N146ET 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]
1 NTSB record under N146ET: Accident on July 10, 2007 at Skwentna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hiller UH-12E · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from a glacier, which resulted in a tail rotor strike during landing, and damage to the helicopter during an emergency descent/landing on rough/uneven terrain. Factors contributing to the accident were variable and gusty wind conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC07LA062 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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