Sikorsky UH-60A
N160AQ is a Sikorsky UH-60A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1982. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Cormorant Venture LLC, an LLC in Irvine, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; market survey; racing, dated January 31, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- UH-60A · all UH-60As and related versions
- Serial number
- 81-23588
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 2 motors · Ge T700-GE-700 · 1561 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A0F1BD (octal 50170675)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 21, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- May 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Research and development; Market survey; RacingFAA certificate purpose code 164 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 31, 2017
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01191816
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cormorant Venture LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 1900 Main St Ste 700
Irvine, CA 92614-7328
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.
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The public federal record on N160AQ, 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 Cormorant Venture LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 21, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 31, 2017, 35 years after the 1982 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 81-23588 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N160AQ 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 N160AQ: Accident on November 23, 2022 at San Diego, CA: 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 UH-60A · operated under 091
The failure of the crewmembers of the second helicopter to maintain visual separation with the first helicopter while complying with the LC controller’s instruction to go around. Contributing to the accident were the nighttime conditions and the lack of a safety alert from the controller to either helicopter.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data