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N405YM

Bell UH-1D

Valid Texas

N405YM is a Bell UH-1D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 6 seats. It is registered to Rice Aircraft Services INC, a corporation in Kerrville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
UH-1D · all UH-1Ds and related versions
Serial number
8396
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor
Seats
6
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
103 mph
Transponder code
A4C166 (octal 51140546)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 11, 2020
Expires
February 28, 2027
Last FAA action
April 15, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01153117

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rice Aircraft Services INC
Type
Corporation
Address
2000 Airport Loop
Kerrville, TX 78028-9768

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N405YM, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Rice Aircraft Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 11, 2020, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8396 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N405YM according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N405YM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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