Sikorsky S55B
N1255T is a Sikorsky S55B, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1954. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Sierra Aeronautics LLC, an LLC in Franklin, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 21, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 19, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S55B · all S55Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 55607
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Airesearch TSE331 SERIES · 800 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A0695E (octal 50064536)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 21, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 19, 1975
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00390610
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sierra Aeronautics LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 40 Sulphur Spring Church Rd
Franklin, KY 42134-8569
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N1255T, 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 Sierra Aeronautics LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 21, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 19, 1975, 21 years after the 1954 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 55607 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1255T 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]
1 NTSB record under N1255T: Accident on July 24, 2009 at Chelan, WA: no 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sikorsky S-55 · operated under 091
Failure of a seal in the hydraulic system resulting in a loss of hydraulic pressure while maneuvering at low altitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR09LA371 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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