Sikorsky UH-60A
N160BK is a Sikorsky UH-60A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1983. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Unical Air INC, a corporation in Arcadia, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 18, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 17, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- UH-60A · all UH-60As and related versions
- Serial number
- 83-23887
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Ge T700 SERIES · 1543 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A0F1D1 (octal 50170721)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 18, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · November 17, 2017
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01194414
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Unical Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1240 Oakhaven Ln
Arcadia, CA 91006-2435
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 N160BK, 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 Unical Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 18, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 17, 2017, 34 years after the 1983 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 83-23887 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N160BK 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 N160BK: Incident on July 8, 1987 at Cupertino, CA: no injuries, minor 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: Mbb BK117A-3 · operated under 135
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX87IA260 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data