Bell UH-1B
N4237V is a Bell UH-1B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 6 seats. It is registered to Ratledge Thomas D, a partnership in Bethel, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 1987 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated May 15, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- UH-1B · all UH-1Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 261
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A50A25 (octal 51205045)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 1987
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Other · May 15, 1981
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00061844
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ratledge Thomas D
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 368 Owl PO Box 976
Bethel, AK 99559 - Co-owners
- Andrecheck Cynthia R
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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4237V, 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 Ratledge Thomas D, a partnership, certificate issued January 22, 1987, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for other; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 261 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4237V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170 (serial 18621, cancelled January 15, 1953). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4237V. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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