Boeing CH-46E
N461WY is a Boeing CH-46E, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1968. It has 25 seats. It is registered to Sky Aviation CORP, a corporation in Worland, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other, dated July 10, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- CH-46E · all CH-46Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 154831
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Ge T58 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Seats
- 25
- Year built
- 1968
- Transponder code
- A59F5D (octal 51317535)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2014
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Other · July 10, 2015
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01151116
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky Aviation CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1444 Airport Rd
Worland, WY 82401-9568
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 N461WY, 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 Sky Aviation CORP, a corporation, certificate issued May 16, 2014, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 10, 2015, 47 years after the 1968 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 154831 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N461WY 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 N461WY: Accident on August 5, 2023 at Springerville, AZ: no injuries, destroyed. 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: Boeing CH-46E · operated under 091
The flight crew’s misidentification of a No. 2 torque sensing system signal conditioner malfunction when both engines were performing normally, which resulted in their attempt to execute a single-engine steep approach and landing without sufficient engine power. Contributing to the accident was the failure of the torque sensing system signal conditioner.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR23LA306 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data