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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.
Where is it now Last seen Tuesday at 5:52 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- UH-1H · all UH-1Hs 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 Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 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
- 68-16596
- 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 · Lycoming T-53 · 1150 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1968
- Transponder code
- AD5A34 (octal 53255064)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 20, 2015
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · OtherFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 29, 2001
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00255821
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Av8-Orr Helicopter Services INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N96EC links to the rest of the register
- Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 400 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming T-53 60 aircraft with this engine series · 1150 hp
- Av8-Orr Helicopter Services INC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Hamilton, MT 114 aircraft registered in this town
- Ravalli County · HRF
- Rotorcraft Heliport · M62
- Montana 6,037 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 33 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 118 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell UH-1 Huey (Iroquois) 31 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Lycoming T-53 9 reports since 1995
- Where N96EC is now · Last seen Tuesday at 5:52 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N96EC.json.
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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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data