Hiller UH-12C
N57CD is a Hiller UH-12C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1957. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Winterset, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 27, 1973.
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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
- 878
- 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 6A&6V335 SER · 210 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A74C46 (octal 51646106)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 9, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 9, 2026
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 27, 1973
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00770476
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carey James Dean
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1563 180Th St
Winterset, IA 50273-8539
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N57CD 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 6A&6V335 series 71 aircraft with this engine series · 210 hp
- Type certificate 6H2 · held by Siam Hiller Holdings INC
- Winterset, IA 22 aircraft registered in this town
- Winterset Municipal · 3Y3
- Iowa 4,503 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
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The public federal record on N57CD, 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 Carey James Dean, an individual, certificate issued January 9, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 27, 1973, 16 years after the 1957 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 878 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N57CD 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 N57CD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data