Hiller UH-12A
N8178H is a Hiller UH-12A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1950. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Rotor Wing Nuts LLC, an LLC in Kansas City, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 17, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 19, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- UH-12A · all UH-12As and related versions
- Serial number
- 178
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V-335 SERIES · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- AB26D5 (octal 52623325)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 17, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 19, 1984
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00811883
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rotor Wing Nuts LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 11706 Central St
Kansas City, MO 64114-5534
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.
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The public federal record on N8178H, 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 Rotor Wing Nuts LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 17, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 19, 1984, 34 years after the 1950 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 178 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8178H 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]
1 NTSB record under N8178H: Accident on August 27, 2023 at Mosby, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Hiller UH-12A · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain adequate rotor rpm which resulted in a loss of control and impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA383 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