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Bell UH-1H
N71290 is a Bell UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 15 seats. It is registered to Northwest Helicopters LLC, an LLC in Olympia, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- UH-1H · all UH-1Hs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 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
- 70-16517
- 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
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A98727 (octal 52303447)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 21, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00202119
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northwest Helicopters LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N71290 links to the rest of the register
- Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 400 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Northwest Helicopters LLC 49 aircraft in the fleet
- Olympia, WA 242 aircraft registered in this town
- Olympia Regional · OLM
- Hoskins Field · 44T
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 33 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 118 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 31 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N71290.json.
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The public federal record on N71290, 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 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 21, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70-16517 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N71290 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 N71290. 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