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N53AG

Bell UH-1H

Valid Florida

N53AG is a Bell UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1972. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Coastal Helicopters INC, a corporation in Panama City, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 3, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling; other, dated November 3, 2016.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
UH-1H · all UH-1Hs and related versions
Serial number
72-21588
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming T53-L-13B · 1400 hp
Seats
15
Year built
1972
Transponder code
A6AE1B (octal 51527033)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 3, 2007
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; Forest; Patrolling; Other · November 3, 2016
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00336831

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Coastal Helicopters INC
Type
Corporation
Address
7424 Coastal Dr
Panama City, FL 32404-4015

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N53AG, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Coastal Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 3, 2007, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 3, 2016, 44 years after the 1972 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 72-21588 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N53AG according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N53AG. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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