Hiller UH-12C
N222TE is a Hiller UH-12C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1955. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Yorktown, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 26, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- UH-12C · all UH-12Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 802
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6A&6V335 SER · 210 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A1EA1D (octal 50365035)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 19, 2014
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 26, 1979
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00901782
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Franke Darren
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1464 W Fm 1961
Yorktown, TX 78164-5436 - Co-owners
- Franke Renee
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 N222TE, 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 Franke Darren, a co-owned, certificate issued August 19, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 26, 1979, 24 years after the 1955 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 802 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N222TE 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 N222TE: Accident on March 7, 1995 at Bonners Ferry, ID: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hiller UH-12C · operated under 091
ROTOR RPM WAS NOT MAINTAINED. FACTORS TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: INADEQUATE IN FLIGHT PLANNING/DECISION AND SUITABLE TERRAIN WAS NOT AVAILABLE.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data