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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- UH-12E · all UH-12Es and related versions
- Serial number
- HA3081
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Allison 250 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 72 mph
- Transponder code
- A4B7BB (octal 51133673)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 26, 2013
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · October 3, 1980
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00811084
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Haddock Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1111 Gourdin Rd
Salters, SC 29590-3576
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 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]
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: Hiller-Soloy UH-12E · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA86FA039 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