Sikorsky S-55B
N443FD is a Sikorsky S-55B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1955. It has 12 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sussex, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 13, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 22, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S-55B · all S-55Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 55-1046
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Wright C7BA SERIES · 800 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 71 mph
- Transponder code
- A55643 (octal 51253103)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 13, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 22, 1972
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00352454
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Robertson Donald M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 235 Stateline Dr
Sussex, NJ 07461-3905
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.
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The public federal record on N443FD, 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 Robertson Donald M, an individual, certificate issued July 13, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 22, 1972, 17 years after the 1955 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 55-1046 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N443FD 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]
1 NTSB record under N443FD: Accident on October 12, 2012 at Yorktown, NY: 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: Sikorsky S-55B · operated under 091
The pilot's improper decision to perform a downwind precautionary landing and the helicopter’s resultant settling with power and impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA13LA018 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