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Bell UH-1H
N205KS is a Bell UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 15 seats. It is registered to Usda Forest Service Fepp, a government body in Santa Barbara, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 8, 1998 and expires on April 30, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- UH-1H · all UH-1Hs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 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
- 9526
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A1A588 (octal 50322610)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 8, 1998
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00025232
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Usda Forest Service Fepp
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4410 Cathedral Oaks
Santa Barbara, CA 93110 - Co-owners
- California Dept of Forestry and Fire Protection / Santa Barbara County Fire Department
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.
Connections how N205KS links to the rest of the register
- Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 398 registered
- Bell 3,079 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Usda Forest Service Fepp 108 aircraft in the fleet
- Santa Barbara, CA 157 aircraft registered in this town
- Santa Barbara Municipal · SBA
- California 27,686 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 33 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 118 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 31 supplemental type certificates
- Where N205KS is now · Last seen yesterday at 1:07 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N205KS.json.
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The public federal record on N205KS, 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 Usda Forest Service Fepp, a government body, certificate issued September 8, 1998, expires April 30, 2028. 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 9526 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N205KS 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 N205KS: Accident on January 12, 2018 at Van Nuys, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 24, 2010 at Santa Barbara, CA: 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 1H · operated under PUBU
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from a stationary helicopter during landing. Contributing to the accident was the ground crew’s failure to ensure that the helicopter would clear the stationary helicopter.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell UH-1H · operated under PUBU
The failure of left tailboom upper attachment fitting as a result of fatigue.
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