Continental Copters Inc TOMCAT MK5A
N161SH is a Continental Copters Inc TOMCAT MK5A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1976. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jordan, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2004 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 28, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Continental Copters Inc
- Model
- TOMCAT MK5A · all TOMCAT MK5As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1921
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1976
- Transponder code
- A0F6FD (octal 50173375)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 15, 2004
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · April 28, 1976
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00682820
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Churchill Dianne L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7100 Old Highway 169 Blvd
Jordan, MN 55352-9661
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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 N161SH, 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 Churchill Dianne L, an individual, certificate issued March 15, 2004, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 28, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1921 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N161SH 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 N161SH: Accident on July 25, 2014 at Osage, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Continental Copters INC. TOMCAT MK5A · operated under 137
The total loss of engine power due to water contamination of the fuel, which resulted in the pilot's forced landing and impact with terrain. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's decision to operate the helicopter without resolving the fuel contamination.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN14CA391 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