Williams Helicopter Corp UH-1H
N247PV is a Williams Helicopter Corp UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1965. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Pacific Valley Aviation INC, a corporation in Arbuckle, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 11, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other, dated January 3, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Williams Helicopter Corp
- Model
- UH-1H · all UH-1Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 65-9649
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming T53-L-13 · 1400 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1965
- Transponder code
- A24B59 (octal 50445531)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 11, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Other · January 3, 2001
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00923675
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pacific Valley Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 247
Arbuckle, CA 95912-0247
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 N247PV, 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 Pacific Valley Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 11, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 3, 2001, 36 years after the 1965 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 65-9649 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N247PV 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 N247PV: Accident on October 13, 2017 at Arbuckle, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Western International Avia INC UH 1H · operated under 091
A collective control malfunction for reasons that could not be determined.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR18LA004 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
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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