Hiller UH-12E
N4029S 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 Slikker Flying Service INC, a corporation in Buttonwillow, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2011 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 2, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- UH-12E · all UH-12Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 5129
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-540 SERIES · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 72 mph
- Transponder code
- A4B7B3 (octal 51133663)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 19, 2011
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · May 2, 1980
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00871074
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Slikker Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 597
Buttonwillow, CA 93206-0597
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4029S, 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 Slikker Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 19, 2011, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 2, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5129 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4029S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-65C3 (serial 65354, cancelled March 9, 1973). 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 N4029S: Accident on May 29, 1997 at Granby, NY: serious 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: Hiller UH-12E · operated under 137
failure of the pilot/owner to replace the torsional clutch as specified by the manufacturer, and subsequent failure of the helicopter's clutch, which resulted in a forced landing (autorotation). A related factor was: the encounter with trees in the emergency landing area.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC97LA101 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