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Sikorsky S-58ET
N1168U is a Sikorsky S-58ET, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1958. It has 14 seats. It is registered to Heli-Flite INC, a corporation in Corona, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 29, 2003.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Aris Helicopters, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S-58ET · all S-58ETs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Sikorsky S-58 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 58-1070
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6T-6 · 925 hp
- Seats
- 14
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 81 mph
- Transponder code
- A04600 (octal 50043000)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 20, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 29, 2003
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00951220
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heli-Flite INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1965 Aviation Dr # F
Corona, CA 92878-8709
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.
Connections how N1168U links to the rest of the register
- Sikorsky S-58 25 registered
- Sikorsky 815 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Aris Helicopters · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6T-6 5 aircraft with this engine series · 925 hp
- Type certificate 1H11 · held by California Helicopter Airways INC
- Heli-Flite INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Corona, CA 95 aircraft registered in this town
- Corona Municipal · AJO
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Sikorsky S-58 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Sikorsky S-58 41 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Sikorsky S-58 40 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6T-6 3 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1168U.json.
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The public federal record on N1168U, 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.
Valid registration to Heli-Flite INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 20, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 29, 2003, 45 years after the 1958 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 58-1070 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1168U according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
2 NTSB records under N1168U: Accident on September 11, 2019 at Azusa, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 15, 1989 at Santa Ana, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sikorsky S58 · operated under 091
The in-flight separation of a section of the tail rotor blade due to a fatigue crack, which resulted in the pilot’s forced autorotation into a field.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sikorsky S-58ET · operated under 135
FAILURE OF THE LANDING GEAR RESULTING FROM EXCESSIVE LOADING DURING GROUND OPERATIONS, AND FATIGUE CRACKING.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data