Fairchild Hiller FH-1100
N915BL is a Fairchild Hiller FH-1100, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Northwest Helicopters LLC, an LLC in Olympia, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild Hiller
- Model
- FH-1100 · all FH-1100s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Fairchild Hiller FH-1100 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 158
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- ACA962 (octal 53124542)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 10, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01136048
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northwest Helicopters LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1000 85Th Ave SE
Olympia, WA 98501-5707
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.
Connections how N915BL links to the rest of the register
- Fairchild Hiller FH-1100 8 registered
- Fairchild Hiller 8 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate H2WE · held by Air Space Design and Manufacturing LLC
- Northwest Helicopters LLC 48 aircraft in the fleet
- Olympia, WA 241 aircraft registered in this town
- Olympia Regional · OLM
- Hoskins Field · 44T
- Washington 10,644 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Fairchild Hiller FH-1100 16 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Fairchild Hiller FH-1100 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Fairchild Hiller FH-1100 28 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N915BL.json.
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The public federal record on N915BL, 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 Northwest Helicopters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 10, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. 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 158 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N915BL 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N915BL. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data