Short Bros SD3-60 SHERPA
N161Z is a Short Bros SD3-60 SHERPA, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1997. It has 39 seats. It is registered to Usda Forest Service, a government body in Boise, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2014 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 23, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Short Bros
- Model
- SD3-60 SHERPA · all SD3-60 SHERPAs and related versions
- Serial number
- SH3412
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6A-65AR · 1424 hp
- Seats
- 39
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A0F7A4 (octal 50173644)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 16, 2014
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · April 23, 2016
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00165641
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Usda Forest Service
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 3833 S Development Ave
Boise, ID 83705-5354 - Co-owners
- Fire & Aviation
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N161Z, 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 Usda Forest Service, a government body, certificate issued September 16, 2014, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 23, 2016, 19 years after the 1997 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 SH3412 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N161Z 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 N161Z. 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 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
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