Bell UH-1B
N6180A is a Bell UH-1B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1962. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Jones Aviation INC, a corporation in Biggs, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 2013 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling; weather control, dated August 4, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- UH-1B · all UH-1Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 62-1994
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming T-53 SERIES · 1150 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A80ECF (octal 52007317)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 12, 2013
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; Forest; Patrolling; Weather control · August 4, 1997
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00104452
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jones Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 497
Biggs, CA 95917-0497
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 N6180A, 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 Jones Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 12, 2013, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 4, 1997, 35 years after the 1962 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 62-1994 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6180A 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]
1 NTSB record under N6180A: Accident on June 21, 2017 at Williams, CA: 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 UH1B · operated under 137
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from transmission wires while maneuvering at a low altitude during an agricultural application flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA17CA355 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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