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N3978Z

Hiller UH-12E

Valid Texas

N3978Z is a Hiller UH-12E, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Fort Wolters Helicopter INC, a corporation in Mineral Wells, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 7, 2000 and expires on October 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Hiller
Model
UH-12E
Serial number
2106
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
72 mph
Transponder code
A4A052 (octal 51120122)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 7, 2000
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00350834

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Fort Wolters Helicopter INC
Type
Corporation
Address
517 Grant Rd
Mineral Wells, TX 76067-8826

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1970-04-24Piper PA-18-150 · exported to Kenya · Valid registration

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