Bell 212
N816SS is a Bell 212, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1982. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Hilcorp Equipment LLC, an LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 29, 1982.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Grasshopper Aviation LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 212 · all 212s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Bell 212 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 31209
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6T-3 SERIES · 900 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- AB2147 (octal 52620507)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 5, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 29, 1982
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00562943
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hilcorp Equipment LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3800 Centerpoint Dr Ste 1400
Anchorage, AK 99503-5832
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.
Connections how N816SS links to the rest of the register
- Bell 212 59 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Grasshopper Aviation LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6T-3 series 17 aircraft with this engine series · 900 hp
- Type certificate H4SW · held by Bell Textron INC
- Hilcorp Equipment LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Anchorage, AK 2,530 aircraft registered in this town
- Lake Hood Airport · LHD
- Merrill Field · MRI
- Ted Stevens Anchorage International · ANC
- Bold Airport · A13
- 2 more landing places in town
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 212 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 212 1,185 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 212 353 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6T-3 series 2 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N816SS.json.
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The public federal record on N816SS, 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 Hilcorp Equipment LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 5, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated January 29, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31209 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N816SS according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N816SS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data