Bell UH-1H
N56CF is a Bell UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1964. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Vertol Systems INC, a corporation in Destin, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2000 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling; carriage of cargo, dated December 31, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- UH-1H · all UH-1Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 64-13880
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming T53-L-13 · 1400 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1964
- Transponder code
- A724C9 (octal 51622311)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 21, 2000
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; Forest; Patrolling; Carriage of cargo · December 31, 2001
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00875582
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vertol Systems INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 727
Destin, FL 32540-0727
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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N56CF, 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 Vertol Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 21, 2000, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 31, 2001, 37 years after the 1964 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 64-13880 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N56CF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerotek PITTS S-1 (serial KA100, cancelled August 15, 1989). 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 N56CF: Accident on March 25, 2001 at Zuni, NM: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell UH-1H · operated under 091
a hard landing due to the pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during autorotation/flare. A factor was the total loss of engine power due to mechanical failure.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data