Bell UH-1H
N72297 is a Bell UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1967. It has 15 seats. It is registered to American AG Aviation INC DBA, a corporation in Five Points, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 8, 2010 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other, dated August 10, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- UH-1H · all UH-1Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 67-17147
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming T53-L-13 · 1400 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1967
- Transponder code
- A9AEAD (octal 52327255)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 8, 2010
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Other · August 10, 2010
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00186361
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American AG Aviation INC DBA
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 565
Five Points, CA 93624-0565 - Co-owners
- American West Aviation
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 N72297, 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 American AG Aviation INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued September 8, 2010, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 10, 2010, 43 years after the 1967 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 67-17147 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N72297 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 120 (serial 9474, cancelled August 22, 1991). 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 N72297: Accident on February 17, 2022 at Coalinga, CA: fatal, substantial damage (1 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: Bell UH-1H · operated under 137
The pilot’s loss of situational awareness for reasons that could not be determined given the available evidence, which led to controlled flight into terrain. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s decision to operate the helicopter while ill and fatigued.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR22FA098 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