Bell HH-1H
N233JP is a Bell HH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 15 seats. It is registered to Washoe County Sheriff Dept, a government body in Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2018 and expires on December 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- HH-1H · all HH-1Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 70-2478
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A2147B (octal 50412173)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 2018
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00186032
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Washoe County Sheriff Dept
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 911 Parr Blvd
Reno, NV 89512
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 N233JP, 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 Washoe County Sheriff Dept, a government body, certificate issued December 17, 2018, expires December 31, 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 70-2478 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N233JP 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 N233JP: Accident on July 23, 2013 at Mount Charleston, NV: fatal (1 fatal). 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 HH-1H · operated under PUBU
The premature hoisting operation and the inadvertent disengagement of the hoist hook on the rescuer’s harness in dark night conditions. Contributing to the accident was a lack of direct audio communication between the rescuer and the hoist operator.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR13GA338 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