Sikorsky S-64E
N173AC is a Sikorsky S-64E, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1967. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Helicopter Express LLC, an LLC in Chamblee, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 2, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 26, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S-64E · all S-64Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 64015
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · P & W JFTD12A-4A · 4500 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 81 mph
- Transponder code
- A12455 (octal 50222125)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 2, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · June 26, 2013
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00084772
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Helicopter Express LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2025 Flightway Dr
Chamblee, GA 30341-3349
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 N173AC, 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 Helicopter Express LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 2, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 26, 2013, 46 years after the 1967 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 64015 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N173AC 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 N173AC: Accident on January 28, 2019 at Mount Eliza: minor injuries, substantial 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sikorsky S64 · operated under 129
On January 28, 2019, at 1956 local time, a Sikorsky S-64E, N173AC, sustained substantial damage after colliding into a pond near Mount Eliza, Australia. The pilot and two crewmembers were not injured. The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Government of Australia. This report is for information purposes and contains only information released by the Government of Australia. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from: Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) P.O. Box 967, Civic Square Canberra A.C.T. 2608 Australia Tel.: (61) 2 6230-4408 (24/7 Noti…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR19WA147 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
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