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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- UH-1H · all UH-1Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 9526
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A1A588 (octal 50322610)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 8, 1998
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00025232
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Usda Forest Service Fepp
- Type
- Government
- 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.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA18CA107 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell UH-1H · operated under PUBU
The failure of left tailboom upper attachment fitting as a result of fatigue.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR10TA318 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