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N911HN

Bell Helicopter HH-1N

N911HN is a Bell Helicopter HH-1N, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Department, a government body in Santa Barbara, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 19, 2010 and expires on June 30, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell Helicopter
Model
HH-1N · all HH-1Ns and related versions
Serial number
31627
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 2 motors
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AC9B1E (octal 53115436)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 19, 2010
Expires
June 30, 2029
Last FAA action
August 11, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01040052

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Department
Type
Government
Address
4434 Calle Real
Santa Barbara, CA 93110-1002

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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N911HN, 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 Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Department, a government body, certificate issued January 19, 2010, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31627 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N911HN 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 N911HN. 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