Hiller OH-23B
N17129 is a Hiller OH-23B, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1951. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cardington, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 23, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- OH-23B · all OH-23Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 51-16189
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V-335 SERIES · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1951
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A11FA4 (octal 50217644)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 2014
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · June 23, 1983
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00002050
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dreyer Elwain C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3177 Tr 152
Cardington, OH 43315
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 N17129, 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 Dreyer Elwain C, an individual, certificate issued May 8, 2014, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 23, 1983, 32 years after the 1951 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 51-16189 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N17129 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 N17129: Accident on November 15, 1984 at Butler, PA: serious 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-12B · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC85FGM02 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data