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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Short Bros SD3-60 SHERPA
N162Z is a Short Bros SD3-60 SHERPA, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1998. It has 39 seats. It is registered to Usda Forest Service Fire & Aviation, a government body in Boise, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 12, 2014 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 2, 2018.
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 12:50 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Short Bros
- Model
- SD3-60 SHERPA · all SD3-60 SHERPAs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Short Bros SD3 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
- SH3401
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6A-65AR · 1424 hp
- Seats
- 39
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A0FB5B (octal 50175533)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 12, 2014
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 2, 2018
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00041283
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Usda Forest Service Fire & Aviation
- 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
- 3833 S Development Ave
Boise, ID 83705-5354
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N162Z links to the rest of the register
- Short Bros SD3 41 registered
- Short Bros 66 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-65AR 27 aircraft with this engine series · 1424 hp
- Usda Forest Service Fire & Aviation 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Boise, ID 593 aircraft registered in this town
- Boise Air Trml/Gowen Field · BOI
- Idaho 4,200 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Short Bros SD3 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Short Bros SD3 318 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Short Bros SD3 60 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-65AR 1 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Strobe, burned out · 2001-08-22
- Where N162Z is now · Last seen October 15 at 12:50 pm.
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The public federal record on N162Z, 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 Fire & Aviation, a government body, certificate issued September 12, 2014, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 2, 2018, 20 years after the 1998 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 SH3401 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N162Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 58P (serial TJ-433, cancelled September 14, 2012). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N162Z. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data