Sikorsky S-70I
N283SD is a Sikorsky S-70I, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2017. It has 15 seats. It is registered to City Of San Diego, a government body in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 7, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated April 26, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S-70I · all S-70Is and related versions
- Serial number
- 704025
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Ge T700-GE-701D · 1994 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A2DAB4 (octal 50555264)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 7, 2018
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · April 26, 2018
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01265108
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- City Of San Diego
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 4302 Ponderosa Ave
San Diego, CA 92123-1531 - Co-owners
- Fire-Rescue Department
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N283SD, 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 City Of San Diego, a government body, certificate issued August 7, 2018, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development, dated April 26, 2018, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 704025 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N283SD 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 N283SD. 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 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