Bell Helicopter Textron Canada UH-1D
N71SB is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada UH-1D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 6 seats. It is registered to Rice Aircraft Services INC, a corporation in Kerrville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 11, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- UH-1D · all UH-1Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 8131
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A97B46 (octal 52275506)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 11, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01524816
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rice Aircraft Services INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2000 Airport Loop
Kerrville, TX 78028-9768
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 N71SB, 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 Rice Aircraft Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 11, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. 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 8131 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N71SB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20E (serial 565, cancelled September 16, 2013). 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]
1 NTSB record under N71SB: Accident on July 17, 1987 at Vail, CO: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Mooney M20E · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN87FA186 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