Bell UH-1H
N857SD is a Bell UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1963. It has 15 seats. It is registered to an individual in Anchorage, Alaska. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; aerial surveying; patrolling, dated February 29, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- UH-1H · all UH-1Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 63-08857
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming T-55 SER TS · 2650 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1963
- Transponder code
- ABC2ED (octal 52741355)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- March 9, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Aerial surveying; Patrolling · February 29, 2024
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00085232
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1842 Merrill Field Dr
Anchorage, AK 99501-4112
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.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N857SD, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 29, 2024, 61 years after the 1963 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 63-08857 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N857SD 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 N857SD. 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 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