Hiller UH-12E
N945HA 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 Dechene CORP, a corporation in Big Lake, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 2, 2018 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 15, 1996. 1 document is on file: loan release.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- UH-12E · all UH-12Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 2057
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-540 SERIES · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 72 mph
- Transponder code
- AD206B (octal 53220153)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 2, 2018
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 15, 1996
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00062324
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dechene CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 18222 195Th St NW
Big Lake, MN 55309-9525
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N945HA, 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 Dechene CORP, a corporation, certificate issued May 2, 2018, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 15, 1996, 32 years after the 1964 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2057 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N945HA according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Loan release (September 4, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N945HA: Accident on August 15, 2008 at Cokato, MN: no 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 137
The pilot did not visually identify and maintain clearance with the power lines, and the pilot's inability to maintain control of the helicopter once it contacted the power lines. Factors associated with the accident were the low altitude operations being conducted and the power lines.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI08CA252 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
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