Sikorsky S-92A
N145JW is a Sikorsky S-92A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2016. It has 19 seats. It is registered to Bristow LLC, an LLC in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 5, 2016.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Bristow LLC, so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 7:05 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S-92A · all S-92As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Sikorsky S-92 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
- 920300
- 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 · Ge CT7-8A · 2520 hp
- Seats
- 19
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A0B620 (octal 50133040)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2017
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2026
- 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 5, 2016
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01182416
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bristow LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 600 Airport Blvd
Lake Charles, LA 70607-0610
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 N145JW links to the rest of the register
- Sikorsky S-92 44 registered
- Sikorsky 815 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Bristow LLC · charter operator
- General Electric CT7-8A 43 aircraft with this engine series · 2520 hp
- Type certificate R00024BO · held by Sikorsky Aircraft CORP
- Bristow LLC 59 aircraft in the fleet
- Lake Charles, LA 162 aircraft registered in this town
- Chennault International · CWF
- Lake Charles Regional · LCH
- Louisiana 3,733 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Sikorsky S-92 45 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Sikorsky S-92 324 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Sikorsky S-92 119 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the General Electric CT7-8A 8 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the General Electric CT7-8A 117 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Wire Harness, damaged · 2024-09-13
- Report filed on this aircraft: Connector, contaminated · 2024-09-12
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fire Detector, contaminated · 2024-09-10
- Where N145JW is now · Last seen October 16 at 7:05 am.
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The public federal record on N145JW, 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 Bristow LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 11, 2017, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated December 5, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 920300 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N145JW 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N145JW. 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 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
