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N116

Sikorsky HH-60L

Valid Montana

N116 is a Sikorsky HH-60L, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2004. It has 16 seats. It is registered to Central Copters INC, a corporation in Belgrade, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 29, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other, dated July 8, 2022.

Aircraft

Maker
Sikorsky
Model
HH-60L · all HH-60Ls and related versions
Serial number
04-27022
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 2 motors · Ge T700-GE-701C · 1890 hp
Seats
16
Year built
2004
Transponder code
A0427C (octal 50041174)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 29, 2022
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
May 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Other · July 8, 2022
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01285560

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Central Copters INC
Type
Corporation
Address
191 Aviation Ln
Belgrade, MT 59714-9145

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1947-01-24Beech D17S · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N116, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Central Copters INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 29, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 8, 2022, 18 years after the 2004 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 04-27022 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N116 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech D17S (serial 4907, cancelled January 24, 1947). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N116. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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