Bell UH-1H
N51AG is a Bell UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1971. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Brown Helicopter INC, a corporation in Pensacola, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 11, 2014 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other, dated July 17, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- UH-1H · all UH-1Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 71-20178
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1971
- Transponder code
- A65F1D (octal 51457435)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 11, 2014
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Other · July 17, 1997
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00435532
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brown Helicopter INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 10100 Aileron Ave
Pensacola, FL 32506-8223
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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 N51AG, 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 Brown Helicopter INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 11, 2014, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 17, 1997, 26 years after the 1971 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 71-20178 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N51AG 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]
2 NTSB records under N51AG: Accident on December 16, 2004 at Rockford, AL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 31, 1983 at Tomball, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell UH-1H · operated under 137
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate obstacle clearance, which resulted in an in-flight collision with a tree.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL05LA035 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Anderson, Greenwood 51 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW83LA173 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data