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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Garlick Helicopters Inc HH-1K
N540FU is a Garlick Helicopters Inc HH-1K, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1999. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Adf Helicopters INC, a non-citizen corporation in Brewster, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 23, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling, dated December 1, 1999.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Garlick Helicopters Inc
- Model
- HH-1K
- Serial number
- 157190
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming T-53 · 1150 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A6D87C (octal 51554174)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 23, 2017
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; Forest; PatrollingFAA certificate purpose code 1245 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 1, 1999
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00494142
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Adf Helicopters INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporationFAA type of owner code 8 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 2108
Brewster, WA 98812-2108
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N540FU links to the rest of the register
- Garlick Helicopters Inc 36 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming T-53 60 aircraft with this engine series · 1150 hp
- Adf Helicopters INC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Brewster, WA 34 aircraft registered in this town
- Anderson Field · S97
- Washington 10,571 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Lycoming T-53 9 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N540FU, 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 Adf Helicopters INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued June 23, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling, dated December 1, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 157190 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N540FU 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N540FU. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data