N42472 is not currently registered. It was last assigned to a Bell UH-1H built in 1974. The FAA cancelled the registration on December 19, 2012 when the aircraft was exported to Lebanon. The last status on file was "valid registration". The number has been on and off the register 3 times.
Bell UH-1H cancelled December 19, 2012
- Serial number
- 74-22381
- Type
- Rotorcraft · Turboshaft
- Year built
- 1974
- Last status
- Valid registration
- Exported to
- Lebanon
- Certificate issued
- April 26, 2011
- Last FAA action
- April 26, 2011
- Last owner
- Bell Helicopter Textron INC (Corporation)
Fort Worth, TX - Airworthiness
- Experimental · Market survey
Cessna 207 cancelled March 15, 2001
- Serial number
- 207-00148
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine · Piston (reciprocating)
- Year built
- —
- Last status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 21, 1998
- Last FAA action
- October 21, 1998
- Last owner
- Inland Holdings INC (Corporation)
Aniak, AK - Airworthiness
- None on file
Cessna 182L cancelled November 7, 1972
- Serial number
- 18259031
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine · Piston (reciprocating)
- Year built
- 1968
- Last status
- Valid registration
- Exported to
- New Zealand
- Certificate issued
- June 14, 1972
- Last FAA action
- —
- Last owner
- Briggs Aircraft (Partnership)
Moore, OK - Airworthiness
- None on file
NTSB accident and incident record under N42472
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 207 · serial 207-00148
The pilot's decision to initiate visual flight into dark night instrument meteorological conditions. Factors associated with the accident are a low ceiling, a dark night, the pilot's failure to follow regulatory procedures and directives, and his self-induced pressure to return to base to take another flight.
A tail number passes between aircraft over the years; match the serial number on the NTSB record against the airframe above. Source: NTSB aviation accident database, records through September 30, 2026.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this number on the FAA site