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N476DF

Sikorsky S-70I

N476DF is a Sikorsky S-70I, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2020. It has 15 seats. It is registered to California Department Of Forestry & Fire, a government body in Mcclellan, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 18, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated May 13, 2021.

Aircraft

Maker
Sikorsky
Model
S-70I · all S-70Is and related versions
Serial number
704083
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 2 motors · Ge T700-GE-701D · 1994 hp
Seats
15
Year built
2020
Transponder code
A5D7B5 (octal 51353665)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 18, 2023
Expires
October 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Research and development · May 13, 2021
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01323941

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
California Department Of Forestry & Fire
Type
Government
Address
5500 Price Ave
Mcclellan, CA 95652-2438
Co-owners
Protection

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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 N476DF, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to California Department Of Forestry & Fire, a government body, certificate issued October 18, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for research and development, dated May 13, 2021, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 704083 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N476DF according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N476DF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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