Hiller UH-12E
N40290 is a Hiller UH-12E, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Haddock Flying Service INC, a corporation in Salters, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 26, 2013 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated October 3, 1980.
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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
- HA3081
- 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 · Allison 250 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 72 mph
- Transponder code
- A4B7BB (octal 51133673)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 26, 2013
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 3, 1980
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00811084
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Haddock Flying Service INC
- 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
- 1111 Gourdin Rd
Salters, SC 29590-3576
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N40290 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
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250 series 446 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Type certificate 4H11 · held by Siam Hiller Holdings INC
- Haddock Flying Service INC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Salters, SC 5 aircraft registered in this town
- South Carolina 3,111 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
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The public federal record on N40290, 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 Haddock Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 26, 2013, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated October 3, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial HA3081 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N40290 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 N40290: Accident on January 16, 1986 at Horton, OR: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hiller-Soloy 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data