Bell UH-1H
N97NW is a Bell UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1965. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Northwest Helicopters LLC, an LLC in Olympia, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 16, 2013 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other, dated August 18, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- UH-1H · all UH-1Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 65-09823
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming T-53 SERIES · 1150 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1965
- Transponder code
- AD828D (octal 53301215)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 16, 2013
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Other · August 18, 1994
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00624842
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northwest Helicopters LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1000 85Th Ave SE
Olympia, WA 98501-5707
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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 N97NW, 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 January 16, 2013, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 18, 1994, 29 years after the 1965 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 65-09823 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N97NW 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 N97NW: Accident on August 12, 1996 at Coeur D'Alene, ID: serious 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: Garlick UH-1H · operated under 133
Fatigue fracture of the left forward vertical stabilizer spar, resulting in loss of the vertical stabilizer and tail rotor and subsequent loss of control. A factor was insufficient applicability (by make and model) of an existing FAA airworthiness directive (AD 71-21-02) which mandated repetitive crack inspections in the area of the fracture.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA96FA187 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