Helio H-391B
N173K is a Helio H-391B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Helio
- Model
- H-391B · all H-391Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 074
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming GO-435 · 210 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 117 mph
- Transponder code
- A12533 (octal 50222463)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 7, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00382360
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wikle Artic C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 501 W Jack Fish Rd
Wasilla, AK 99654-0302
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N173K, 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 Wikle Artic C, an individual, certificate issued September 7, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 074 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N173K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Monocoupe 90 (serial 507, cancelled February 3, 1948). 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]
1 NTSB record under N173K: Accident on October 8, 1993 at Beaver Creek, AK: no 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: Helio H-391-B · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN THE REQUIRED AIRSPEED DURING THE EMERGENCY DESCENT AS PUBLISHED IN THE PILOT'S MANUAL. A FACTOR IS THE LOSS OF ENGINE POWER FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC94LA007 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