Bell UH-1H
N3053Q is a Bell UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1966. It has 15 seats. It is registered to West Valley Aviation INC, a corporation in Five Points, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other, dated May 26, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- UH-1H · all UH-1Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 66-1104
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming T-53 · 1150 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1966
- Transponder code
- A334B5 (octal 50632265)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 19, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Other · May 26, 2004
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00254007
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- West Valley Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 506
Five Points, CA 93624-0506
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3053Q, 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 West Valley Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 19, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 26, 2004, 38 years after the 1966 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 66-1104 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3053Q was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182K (serial 18258053, cancelled August 17, 1993). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N3053Q: Accident on November 4, 2023 at Firebaugh, 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: Arrow Falcon Exporters UH-1H · operated under 137
An on-ground fuel fire for reasons that could not be determined due to extensive thermal damage.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24LA030 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