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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- OH-23B · all OH-23Bs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. This is how the Hiller OH-23 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
- 51-16189
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 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 registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 2014
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 23, 1983
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00002050
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dreyer Elwain C
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3177 Tr 152
Cardington, OH 43315
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N17129 links to the rest of the register
- Hiller OH-23 15 registered
- Hiller 242 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Franklin 6V-335 series 29 aircraft with this engine series · 200 hp
- Type certificate 6H2 · held by Siam Hiller Holdings INC
- Cardington, OH 27 aircraft registered in this town
- Ohio 8,529 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Hiller OH-23 1 reports since 1995
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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
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data