Flight Research Inc FRI H58C
N170FR is a Flight Research Inc FRI H58C, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to National Test Pilot School, a corporation in Mojave, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 25, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated May 25, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Flight Research Inc
- Model
- FRI H58C
- Serial number
- FRI 001
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison T63-A-720 · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A119BA (octal 50214672)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 25, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · May 25, 2018
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00587081
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- National Test Pilot School
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1030 Flight Line Bldg 72
Mojave, CA 93501-1679
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 N170FR, 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 National Test Pilot School, a corporation, certificate issued May 25, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 25, 2018, 18 years after the 2000 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 FRI 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N170FR 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 N170FR. 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data