Hiller UH-12B
N5072R is a Hiller UH-12B, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Benton City, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 27, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 4, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- UH-12B · all UH-12Bs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. This is how the Hiller UH-12 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
- 613
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Franklin 6V 350 SERIES · 235 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A6569F (octal 51453237)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 27, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 27, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 4, 2010
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00191799
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fogelson Robert A
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 9414 W Yakitat Pl
Benton City, WA 99320-5268 - Co-owners
- Fogelson Vikki L
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 2
Connections how N5072R links to the rest of the register
- Hiller UH-12 217 registered
- Hiller 242 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Franklin 6V 350 series 134 aircraft with this engine series · 235 hp
- Type certificate 6H2 · held by Siam Hiller Holdings INC
- Benton City, WA 15 aircraft registered in this town
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Hiller UH-12 60 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Hiller UH-12 65 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Hiller UH-12 112 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N5072R, 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 Fogelson Robert A, a co-owned, certificate issued May 27, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 613 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5072R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Raytheon Aircraft Company C90A (serial LJ-1672, cancelled October 3, 2002); Cessna 172M (serial 17263310, cancelled February 7, 1980). 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]
1 NTSB record under N5072R: Accident on February 6, 2013 at Merritt Island, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hiller UH-12B · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation, which resulted from an overstress failure of a fitting on the fuel supply line and led to an autorotation and hard landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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