Hylio AG-216
N196BH is a Hylio AG-216, a rotorcraft powered by electric motors (a helicopter or multicopter). It is unmanned. It is registered to Hylio INC, a corporation in Richmond, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hylio (United States)FAA spelling: HYLIO INC
- Model
- AG-216 · all AG-216s and related versions
- Serial number
- 17906090002
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Electric, 6 motors
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A17E96 (octal 50277226)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 31, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 31, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01419069
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hylio INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1020 Agnes Rd
Richmond, TX 77469-8393
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N196BH, 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 Hylio INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 31, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17906090002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N196BH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Eurocopter AS 350 B2 (serial 3036, cancelled August 7, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N196BH: Accident on July 8, 2004 at Hilo, HI: minor 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: Eurocopter AS350 B2 · operated under 135
the pilot's inadequate planning/decision by his VFR flight into IMC, and his failure to maintain obstacle clearance which resulted in an in-flight collision with a tree. A low ceiling and fog were contributing factors.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX04LA256 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