Bell EH-1H
N491DF is a Bell EH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 6 seats. It is registered to Usda Forest Service Fepp, a government body in Mccellan, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 26, 1999 and expires on April 30, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- EH-1H · all EH-1Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 69-15858
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A61420 (octal 51412040)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 26, 1999
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00575712
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Usda Forest Service Fepp
- Type
- Government
- Address
- Ca Dept Forestry/Fire Protection
5500 Price Avenue
Mccellan, CA 95652-2421 - Co-owners
- California Dept Of Forestry And Fire Protection / Aviation Management
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N491DF, 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 Usda Forest Service Fepp, a government body, certificate issued May 26, 1999, expires April 30, 2030. 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 69-15858 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N491DF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 204-B (serial 7109, cancelled May 29, 1996). 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 N491DF. 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