Bell Helicopter Corp UH-1D
N849DB is a Bell Helicopter Corp UH-1D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1970. It has 6 seats. It is registered to D & B Aviation Brokerage Services LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 21, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Corp
- Model
- UH-1D
- Serial number
- 8494
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming T5313B · 1400 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1970
- Transponder code
- ABA195 (octal 52720625)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · February 21, 2024
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01397052
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- D & B Aviation Brokerage Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674
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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 N849DB, 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 D & B Aviation Brokerage Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 14, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 21, 2024, 54 years after the 1970 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 8494 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N849DB 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 N849DB: Accident on February 26, 2025 at Deland, FL: 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: Bell Helicopter CORP UH-1D · operated under 091
The pilot’s loss of helicopter control during landing approach in strong wind conditions, which resulted in tail rotor contact with the ground during landing.
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data