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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Kaman Aerospace Corp K-1200
N40HX is a Kaman Aerospace Corp K-1200, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2019. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Helicopter Express LLC, an LLC in Chamblee, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 6, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 19, 2019.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Kaman Aerospace Corp
- Model
- K-1200 · all K-1200s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. The K-MAX: composite rotor blades on an aluminium airframe. This is how the Kaman Aerospace Corp K-1200 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
- A94-0051
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Honeywell T5317A-1 · 1500 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- A4AB0D (octal 51125415)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 6, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 19, 2019
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01306492
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Helicopter Express LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2025 Flightway Dr
Chamblee, GA 30341-3349
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N40HX links to the rest of the register
- Kaman Aerospace Corp K-1200 17 registered
- Kaman Aerospace Corp 18 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Honeywell T5317A-1 12 aircraft with this engine series · 1500 hp
- Type certificate TR7BO · held by Kaman Aerospace CORP
- Helicopter Express LLC 42 aircraft in the fleet
- Chamblee, GA 63 aircraft registered in this town
- Georgia 8,790 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Kaman Aerospace Corp K-1200 9 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Kaman Aerospace Corp K-1200 68 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Kaman Aerospace Corp K-1200 12 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Honeywell T5317A-1 10 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N40HX, 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 Helicopter Express LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 6, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 19, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A94-0051 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N40HX 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 N40HX: Accident on July 12, 2026 at Silver Jack Reservoir, CO: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Kaman Aerospace Corporation K-1200 · operated under 133
On July 12, 2026, about 1705 mountain daylight time, a Kaman Aerospace Corporation K-1200 (K-MAX) helicopter, N40HX, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident at Silver Jack Reservoir, Colorado. The pilot was fatally injured. The helicopter was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 133 external load firefighting flight. The helicopter was operated under a call-when-needed contract with the United States Forest Service (USFS) and was conducting water bucket/fire suppression flight for the Gold Mountain Fire in the Uncompahgre Wilderness of the north-…
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