{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"2011-01-07","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; Forest; Patrolling; Other","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2012-02-22","city":"CRESTLINE","country_code":"US","county_code":"071","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Disclaimer","doc_type_code":"DIS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-16"},{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-16"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41557","engine_horsepower":1400,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"T53L-703","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-21","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181407","mode_s_code":"53002461","mode_s_hex":"AC0531","model":"UH-1H","n_number":"N874","name":"HIGH PERFORMANCE HELICOPTERS CORP","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N874 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 High Performance Helicopters CORP, a corporation in Crestline, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 22, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling; other, dated January 7, 2011. 2 documents are on file: disclaimer, bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to High Performance Helicopters CORP, a corporation, certificate issued February 22, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 7, 2011, 46 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 65-12874 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N874 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-55 (serial 551004, cancelled March 11, 2013); Stinson SB-1 (serial 3, cancelled June 8, 1931). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"2 documents received recently: Disclaimer (September 16, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 16, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N874. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":15,"serial_number":"65-12874","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 390","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00614592","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N874","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1965,"zip":"923250390"}