Hiller UH-12E
N88782 is a Hiller UH-12E, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1965. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Fort Wolters Helicopter INC, a corporation in Mineral Wells, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 22, 1999 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated April 13, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- UH-12E · all UH-12Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 1734
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-540 SER · 305 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 72 mph
- Transponder code
- AC3B61 (octal 53035541)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 22, 1999
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · April 13, 1993
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00264661
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fort Wolters Helicopter INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 517 Grant Rd
Mineral Wells, TX 76067-8826
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 N88782, 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 Fort Wolters Helicopter INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 22, 1999, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 13, 1993, 28 years after the 1965 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 1734 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N88782 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 N88782: Accident on August 14, 1998 at Shelton, NE: serious 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-12E · operated under 137
The pilot mismanaged the fuel which led to fuel starvation and subsequent loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI98LA312 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
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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