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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Aar Airlift Group Inc UH-60A
N116A is an Aar Airlift Group Inc UH-60A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Carson Helicopters INC, a corporation in Perkasie, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated August 6, 2026.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aar Airlift Group Inc
- Model
- UH-60A
- Serial number
- 79-23293
- 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, 2 motors · Ge T700-GE-700 · 1561 hp
- Fuel
- Electricity
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A0427D (octal 50041175)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 9, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 6, 2026
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01228076
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carson Helicopters 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
- 952 Blooming Glen Rd
Perkasie, PA 18944-2965
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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 2
Connections how N116A links to the rest of the register
- Aar Airlift Group Inc 1 aircraft on the register
- General Electric T700-GE-700 43 aircraft with this engine series · 1561 hp
- Carson Helicopters INC 13 aircraft in the fleet
- Perkasie, PA 37 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennridge Airport · CKZ
- Pennsylvania 6,195 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N116A.json.
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The public federal record on N116A, 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 Carson Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 9, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 6, 2026, 47 years after the 1979 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 79-23293 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N116A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Homebuilt BG 12-X (serial JHA-3, cancelled November 4, 2013); Lockheed 749A-79 (serial 2611, cancelled May 15, 1963). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N116A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data