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Sikorsky S-58JT
N4247V is a Sikorsky S-58JT, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 14 seats. It is registered to Sh1P Holdings LLC, an LLC in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 23, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 30, 2007.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Midwest Helicopter Airways, 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 11 at 1:46 pm.
Last seen October 11 at 1:46 pm. Checking whether it is in the air right now…
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S-58JT · all S-58JTs 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 Sikorsky S-58 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
- 58-1547
- 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, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6T-3 · 900 hp
- Seats
- 14
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A50DDC (octal 51206734)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 23, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 23, 2026
- 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 · May 30, 2007
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00311824
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sh1P Holdings LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1910 N Frederic St
Wichita, KS 67206-8904
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 N4247V links to the rest of the register
- Sikorsky S-58 25 registered
- Sikorsky 815 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Midwest Helicopter Airways, Inc. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6T-3 8 aircraft with this engine series · 900 hp
- Type certificate 1H11 · held by California Helicopter Airways INC
- Sh1P Holdings LLC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wichita, KS 1,311 aircraft registered in this town
- Beech Factory Airport · BEC
- Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower Ntl Airport · ICT
- Cessna Acft Field · CEA
- Colonel James Jabara Airport · AAO
- 2 more landing places in town
- Kansas 5,738 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Sikorsky S-58 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Sikorsky S-58 41 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Sikorsky S-58 40 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6T-3 3 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Coupling, cracked · 2026-08-17
- Report filed on this aircraft: Drive Shaft, cracked · 2024-09-06
- Report filed on this aircraft: Oil Pump, jammed · 1998-06-16
- Where N4247V is now · Last seen October 11 at 1:46 pm.
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The public federal record on N4247V, 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 Sh1P Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 23, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 58-1547 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4247V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170 (serial 18603, cancelled December 31, 1970). 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 N4247V. 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