Kaman 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kaman Aerospace Corp
- Model
- K-1200 · all K-1200s and related versions
- Serial number
- A94-0051
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Honeywell T5317A-1 · 1500 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- A4AB0D (octal 51125415)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 6, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 19, 2019
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01306492
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Helicopter Express LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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.
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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-…
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- 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