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Sikorsky S-76B
N176BA is a Sikorsky S-76B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1985. It has 14 seats. It is registered to Islander Holdings LTD, a corporation in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 30, 1985.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Tropic Air Charters, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 3:53 pm.
Last seen October 16 at 3:53 pm. Checking whether it is in the air right now…
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S-76B · all S-76Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Sikorsky S-76 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
- 760317
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6B-36A · 981 hp
- Seats
- 14
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- A12F91 (octal 50227621)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 13, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 27, 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 · December 30, 1985
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00321206
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Islander Holdings LTD
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5530 NW 21St Ter
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309-2717
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 N176BA links to the rest of the register
- Sikorsky S-76 141 registered
- Sikorsky 815 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Tropic Air Charters, Inc. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6B-36A 3 aircraft with this engine series · 981 hp
- Type certificate H1NE · held by Sikorsky Aircraft CORP
- Islander Holdings LTD 12 aircraft in the fleet
- Fort Lauderdale, FL 610 aircraft registered in this town
- Fort Lauderdale Executive · FXE
- Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International · FLL
- Downtown Fort Lauderdale Heliport · DT1
- Florida 21,706 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Sikorsky S-76 3,841 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6B-36A 2 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fire Detector, intermittent · 2020-04-14
- Report filed on this aircraft: Symbol Generator, loose · 2013-05-11
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fuel Tank, leaking · 2012-12-20
- Where N176BA is now · Last seen October 16 at 3:53 pm.
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The public federal record on N176BA, 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 Islander Holdings LTD, a corporation, certificate issued March 13, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated December 30, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 760317 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N176BA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 76 (serial ME1, cancelled date not given). 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 N176BA. 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