Bell UH-1H
N96EC is a Bell UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1968. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Av8-Orr Helicopter Services INC, a corporation in Hamilton, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 20, 2015 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated October 29, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- UH-1H · all UH-1Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 68-16596
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming T-53 · 1150 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1968
- Transponder code
- AD5A34 (octal 53255064)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 20, 2015
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Other · October 29, 2001
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00255821
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Av8-Orr Helicopter Services INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1442
Hamilton, MT 59840-1442
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 N96EC, 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 Av8-Orr Helicopter Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 20, 2015, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 29, 2001, 33 years after the 1968 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 68-16596 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N96EC 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 N96EC. 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 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