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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Helio 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Helio
- Model
- H-391B · all H-391Bs 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 Helio H-391 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
- 074
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 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 registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 7, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 7, 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
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00382360
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wikle Artic C
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N173K links to the rest of the register
- Helio H-391 16 registered
- Helio 120 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming GO-435 33 aircraft with this engine series · 210 hp
- Wasilla, AK 1,275 aircraft registered in this town
- Wasilla Airport · IYS
- Blodgett Lake Seaplane Base · D75
- Cottonwood Lake Seaplane Base · 3H3
- Island Lake Seaplane Base · 29A
- 6 more landing places in town
- Alaska 9,143 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Helio H-391 11 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Helio H-391 2 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Helio H-391 179 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming GO-435 5 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N173K.json.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data