Bell 212
N4359F is a Bell 212, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 15 seats. It is registered to Petroleum Helicopter Technology INC, a corporation in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 212 · all 212s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Bell 212 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
- 31117
- 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, 2 motors
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A5394A (octal 51234512)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 2, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00973746
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Petroleum Helicopter Technology INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 27880 Highway 201 North
San Antonio, TX 78260
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
Connections how N4359F links to the rest of the register
- Bell 212 59 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate H4SW · held by Bell Textron INC
- Petroleum Helicopter Technology INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- San Antonio, TX 790 aircraft registered in this town
- Kelly Field · SKF
- San Antonio International · SAT
- Stinson Municipal · SSF
- Boerne Stage Airfield · 5C1
- 5 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 212 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 212 1,185 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 212 353 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N4359F.json.
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The public federal record on N4359F, 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 Petroleum Helicopter Technology INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 2, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31117 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4359F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-151 (serial 287715025, cancelled January 31, 1991). 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 N4359F. 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 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
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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data