Hiller UH-12E
N7173S is a Hiller UH-12E, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1965. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Craig Helicopters INC, a corporation in Craig, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 1998 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 10, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- UH-12E · all UH-12Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 2351
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 72 mph
- Transponder code
- A998E0 (octal 52314340)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 29, 1998
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 10, 1990
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00267708
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Craig Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1212
Craig, CO 81626-1212
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 N7173S, 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 Craig Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 29, 1998, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 10, 1990, 25 years after the 1965 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 2351 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7173S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150H (serial 15067873, cancelled April 23, 1970). 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]
2 NTSB records under N7173S: Accident on February 1, 2020 at Dinosaur, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 18, 1991 at Vernal, UT: destroyed. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hiller UH 12E · operated under 135
Failure of a S4 compressor blade due to a fatigue crack that likely initiated at a corrosion pit. Contributing to the accident was maintenance personnel’s failure to detect the corrosion pits during maintenance.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN20LA073 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hiller-Soloy UH-12E · operated under PUBU
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA91TL#02 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