Bell Helicopter Co UH-1H II
N490AS is a Bell Helicopter Co UH-1H II, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1964. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Bell Textron INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 18, 2011 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for market survey, dated July 23, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Co
- Model
- UH-1H II · all UH-1H IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 64-13686
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming T53L-703 · 1400 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1964
- Transponder code
- A61029 (octal 51410051)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 18, 2011
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 17, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Market survey · July 23, 2026
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01000773
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bell Textron INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3255 Bell Flight Blvd
Fort Worth, TX 76118-7630
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.
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The public federal record on N490AS, 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 Bell Textron INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 18, 2011, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 23, 2026, 62 years after the 1964 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 64-13686 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N490AS 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N490AS. 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data