Bell UH-1H
N911SZ is a Bell UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 15 seats. It is registered to Bernalillo County Sheriffs Department, a government body in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2000 and expires on September 30, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- UH-1H · all UH-1Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 70-16431
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC9C0A (octal 53116012)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 15, 2000
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00375730
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bernalillo County Sheriffs Department
- Type
- Government
- Address
- PO Box 25927
Albuquerque, NM 87125-0927
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 N911SZ, 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 Bernalillo County Sheriffs Department, a government body, certificate issued May 15, 2000, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70-16431 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N911SZ 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 N911SZ: Accident on July 17, 2022 at Chapelle, NM: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). 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: Bell UH-1H · operated under PUBU
The total loss of engine power due to the fatigue failure of the starter-generator input (zerol) gear which failed due to poor maintenance. Contributing to the accident was the unsuccessful autorotation complicated by the setting sun and high density altitude.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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