Bell AH-1F
N197LE is a Bell AH-1F, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1983. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Army Aviation Heritage Foundation And Museum INC, a corporation in Hampton, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated December 6, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- AH-1F · all AH-1Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 83-24197
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming T53L-703 · 1400 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A1832B (octal 50301453)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2006
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · December 6, 2007
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00254279
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Army Aviation Heritage Foundation And Museum INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 506 Speedway Blvd
Hampton, GA 30228-1803
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 N197LE, 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 Army Aviation Heritage Foundation And Museum INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 12, 2006, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 6, 2007, 24 years after the 1983 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 83-24197 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N197LE 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 N197LE: Accident on March 1, 2012 at Coolidge, AZ: 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: Bell AH-1F · operated under 091
A flight control malfunction while maneuvering for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident examination revealed no evidence of a mechanical malfunction or failure that would have precluded normal operation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR12LA107 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