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N8079E

Bell UH-1H

N8079E is a Bell UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 15 seats. It is registered to an individual in Redding, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 19, 2017 and expires on January 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
65-09718
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor
Seats
15
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AAFF76 (octal 52577566)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 19, 2017
Expires
January 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00463627

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gagnon Roger M
Type
Individual
Address
16607 Clear Creek Rd
Redding, CA 96001-5129

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 4

1995-10-30Bell 206B · exported to Brazil · Valid registration
1991-01-08Piper PA-34-220T · exported to Netherlands · Valid registration
1980-01-15Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28R-201 · exported to United Kingdom · Valid registration
1970-06-16Beech C18S · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N8079E, 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 Gagnon Roger M, an individual, certificate issued January 19, 2017, expires January 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 65-09718 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8079E was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 4333, cancelled October 30, 1995); Piper PA-34-220T (serial 348233074, cancelled January 8, 1991); Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28R-201 (serial 28R7918263, cancelled January 15, 1980). 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 N8079E. 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