.jpg)
Sikorsky S-70A
N160LA is a Sikorsky S-70A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 39 seats. It is registered to County of Los Angeles Fire Dept Air Operations, a government body in Pacoima, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2011 and expires on July 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Where is it now checking the live feed…
Checking the volunteer receiver network for a recent position…
Aircraft broadcast their own position; volunteer receivers pool what they hear. Owners who have asked the FAA not to be displayed are not shown.
Flight history: where it flew in the last seven days · follow it on the live map
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S-70A · all S-70As 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-70 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
- 702453
- 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
- Seats
- 39
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0F2A9 (octal 50171251)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 11, 2011
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00534034
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- County of Los Angeles Fire Dept Air Operations
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- Lacofd Air Ops/Barton Heliport
12605 Osborne St
Pacoima, CA 91331-2129
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 N160LA links to the rest of the register
- Sikorsky S-70 29 registered
- Sikorsky 827 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate H5NE · held by Sikorsky Aircraft CORP
- County of Los Angeles Fire Dept Air Operations 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Pacoima, CA 55 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,642 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Sikorsky S-70 11 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Sikorsky S-70 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Sikorsky S-70 27 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N160LA.json.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N160LA, 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 County of Los Angeles Fire Dept Air Operations, a government body, certificate issued July 11, 2011, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 702453 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N160LA 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]
2 NTSB records under N160LA: Accident on May 4, 2005 at Calabasas, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Incident on August 30, 2004 at Pacoima, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sikorsky S-70A · operated under PUBU
fatigue of the forward keeper due to known flaws in the manufacturing process.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sikorsky S-70A · operated under 091
the failure of the operator's mechanics to install the turboshaft engine's forward curvic seal during a gas generator turbine (GGT) replacement. Contributing factors to the incident were the failure of the manufacturer to provide a forward curvic seal with the replacement GGT, and the lack of a curvic seal installation verification inspection in the maintenance manuals following the GGT installation.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data