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N88HV

Bell 212

N88HV is a Bell 212, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1980. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Appomattox Aviation LLC, an LLC in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 15, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 16, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
212 · all 212s and related versions
Serial number
31118
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6T-3 · 900 hp
Seats
15
Year built
1980
Cruising speed
103 mph
Transponder code
AC1C3F (octal 53016077)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 15, 2014
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · May 16, 1980
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00981315

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Appomattox Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
109 Aviation Dr
Santa Fe, NM 87507-8495

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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N88HV, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Appomattox Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 15, 2014, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated May 16, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31118 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N88HV according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N88HV. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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