Hiller UH-12E
N4027D is a Hiller UH-12E, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Four Creeks Aviation, a corporation in Visalia, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 23, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- UH-12E · all UH-12Es and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. This is how the Hiller UH-12 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 5072
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 72 mph
- Transponder code
- A4B760 (octal 51133540)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 23, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00151074
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Four Creeks Aviation
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 35900 Road 112
Visalia, CA 93291-9518
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.
Connections how N4027D links to the rest of the register
- Hiller UH-12 217 registered
- Hiller 242 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate 4H11 · held by Siam Hiller Holdings INC
- Four Creeks Aviation 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Visalia, CA 132 aircraft registered in this town
- Sequoia Field · D86
- Visalia Municipal · VIS
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Hiller UH-12 60 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Hiller UH-12 65 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Hiller UH-12 112 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Plates, failed · 1995-09-01
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The public federal record on N4027D, 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 Four Creeks Aviation, a corporation, certificate issued October 23, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. 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 5072 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4027D 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 N4027D: Accident on September 1, 1995 at Dos Palos, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 8, 1983 at Near Vacaville, 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.
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hiller UH-12E · operated under 137
the fatigue failure of the tail rotor tension torsion bar plates.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hiller UH-12E · operated under 137
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data