Bell HH-1K
N6165X is a Bell HH-1K, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1970. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Northwest Helicopters I INC, a corporation in Olympia, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 6, 1994 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 24, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- HH-1K · all HH-1Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 157183
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Honeywell T53-L13B · 1100 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1970
- Transponder code
- A80825 (octal 52004045)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 6, 1994
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · April 24, 2015
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00524142
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northwest Helicopters I INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1000 85Th Ave SE
Olympia, WA 98501-5707
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.
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The public federal record on N6165X, 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 Northwest Helicopters I INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 6, 1994, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 24, 2015, 45 years after the 1970 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 157183 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6165X 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 N6165X. 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 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 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