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N234SJ

Bell UH-1B

N234SJ is a Bell UH-1B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1962. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Porter Flying Services INC, a corporation in Chico, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 20, 2002 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated September 16, 1991.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
UH-1B
Serial number
388
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming T-53 SERIES · 1150 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1962
Cruising speed
103 mph
Transponder code
A218F5 (octal 50414365)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 20, 2002
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Other · September 16, 1991
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00105031

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Porter Flying Services INC
Type
Corporation
Address
8562 Aguas Frias Rd
Chico, CA 95928-9521

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.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data