Hiller UH-12E
N909BC is a Hiller UH-12E, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1964. 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 January 29, 2007 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- UH-12E · all UH-12Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 1626
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-540 SERIES · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 72 mph
- Transponder code
- AC90B7 (octal 53110267)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 29, 2007
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00291161
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 N909BC, 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 January 29, 2007, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1626 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N909BC 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 N909BC: Accident on October 23, 2005 at Pasadena, TX: 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 091
The pilot's inadequate fuel management, which resulted in fuel exhaustion and a loss of engine power. A contributing factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW06CA013 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