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N8053T

Bell UH-1H

Valid Florida

N8053T is a Bell UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 15 seats. It is registered to Coastal Helicopters INC, a corporation in Panama City, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 2003 and expires on October 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
UH-1H · all UH-1Hs and related versions
Serial number
69-15321
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor
Seats
15
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AAF743 (octal 52573503)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 16, 2003
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00057789

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Coastal Helicopters INC
Type
Corporation
Address
7424 Coastal Dr
Panama City, FL 32404-4015

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 3

1993-09-30Robinson Helicopter R22 MARINER · exported to Venezuela · Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
1960-09-09Cessna 175A · exported to Australia · Valid registration
—Holman-Dillar SCORPION 133 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N8053T, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Coastal Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 16, 2003, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 69-15321 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8053T was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 MARINER (serial 1105M, cancelled September 30, 1993); Cessna 175A (serial 56753, cancelled September 9, 1960); Holman-Dillar SCORPION 133 (serial RW2814, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8053T. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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