Sikorsky S-70I
N451DF is a Sikorsky S-70I, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2022. It has 15 seats. It is registered to California Dept Of Forestry & Fire Protection, a government body in Mcclellan, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated December 22, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S-70I · all S-70Is and related versions
- Serial number
- 705337
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Ge T700-GE-701D · 1994 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A57624 (octal 51273044)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 8, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 8, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · December 22, 2023
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01356191
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- California Dept Of Forestry & Fire Protection
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 5500 Price Ave
Mcclellan, CA 95652-2438
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N451DF, 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 California Dept Of Forestry & Fire Protection, a government body, certificate issued October 8, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development, dated December 22, 2023, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 705337 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N451DF was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Grumman TS-2A (serial 136639, cancelled August 18, 1988); Grumman S2F-1 (TS-2A) (serial 027, 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 N451DF. 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