Bell UH-1B
N204JB is a Bell UH-1B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1963. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Premier Aircraft Services LLC, an LLC in Bakersfield, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 2, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling; other, dated March 2, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- UH-1B · all UH-1Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 63-13088
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming T-53 SERIES · 1150 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A1A1A9 (octal 50320651)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 2, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; Forest; Patrolling; Other · March 2, 1992
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00163762
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Premier Aircraft Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5401 White Ln
Bakersfield, CA 93309-6279
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 N204JB, 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 Premier Aircraft Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 2, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 2, 1992, 29 years after the 1963 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 63-13088 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N204JB 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]
2 NTSB records under N204JB: Accident on September 6, 2009 at Arvilla, ND: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 31, 1994 at Carrabasset, ME: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell UH-1B · operated under 137
The aircraft owner/mechanic/pilot's installation of an improper tail boom assembly and the resulting fatigue failure of the tail boom's attach fittings.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN09LA565 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell UH-1B · operated under 133
Fracture failure of the tail rotor drive intermediate gearbox.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO94LA159 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