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N8240X

Bell UH-1H

Valid Florida

N8240X is a Bell UH-1H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 15 seats. It is registered to US Department Of State, a government body in Melbourne, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 7, 2007 and expires on October 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
UH-1H
Serial number
70-16285
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor
Seats
15
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AB4225 (octal 52641045)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 7, 2007
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00203689

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
US Department Of State
Type
Government
Address
6767 N Wickham Rd Ste 201
Melbourne, FL 32940-2025
Co-owners
Inl/A

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 4

2002-02-11Bell 206B · exported to Honduras · Valid registration
1992-12-08Beech F33A · exported to Germany · Valid registration
1967-09-07Cessna 172C · exported to Canada · Valid registration
—Piper PA-28-161 · N-number assigned but not yet registered

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