Hiller UH-12E
N80CB is a Hiller UH-12E, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Aero-Tech Helicopters LLC, an LLC in Kingstree, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 12, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated February 26, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- UH-12E · all UH-12Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 5048
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 72 mph
- Transponder code
- AADFB8 (octal 52557670)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 12, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · February 26, 2001
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00485552
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aero-Tech Helicopters LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3045 Sandy Bay Rd
Kingstree, SC 29556-5033
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 · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N80CB, 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 Aero-Tech Helicopters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 12, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5048 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N80CB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech E18S (serial BA257, cancelled October 7, 1993). 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 N80CB: Accident on May 4, 1993 at Lone Rock, WI: fatal, destroyed (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: Beech E-18S · operated under 135
was a pre-mature extension of the landing gear by the pilot which resulted in the inability of the pilot to maintain the minimum descent altitude. Factors related to the accident were the loose cylinder and loss of oil.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI93FA158 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