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Hiller UH-12C
N5317V is a Hiller UH-12C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1956. It has 4 seats. It is registered to International Air Services INC Trustee, a corporation in Carson City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 13, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- UH-12C · all UH-12Cs 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
- 768
- 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 6V4 SERIES · 210 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A6B785 (octal 51533605)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 16, 2020
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- 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 · March 13, 1956
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00942725
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- International Air Services INC Trustee
- 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
- 701 S Carson St Ste 200
Carson City, NV 89701-5239
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.
Connections how N5317V 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 6V4 series 84 aircraft with this engine series · 210 hp
- Type certificate 6H2 · held by Siam Hiller Holdings INC
- International Air Services INC Trustee 620 aircraft in the fleet
- Carson City, NV 967 aircraft registered in this town
- Carson City Airport · CXP
- Nevada 4,583 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
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N5317V.json.
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The public federal record on N5317V, 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 International Air Services INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued December 16, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated March 13, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 768 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5317V 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 N5317V: Accident on July 16, 1999 at Venice, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 12, 1984 at San Juan, PR: fatal (1 fatal). 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: Hiller UH12-C · operated under 091
Loss of engine power due to fuel starvation as a result of the passenger inadvertently shutting off the fuel supply.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hiller UH-12C · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data