Sikorsky S-70I
N480DF is a Sikorsky S-70I, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2019. It has 15 seats. It is registered to California Dept of Forestry and Fire Protection, a government body in Mcclellan, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated May 18, 2021.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 2:04 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S-70I · all S-70Is and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Sikorsky S-70 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
- 704081
- 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, 2 motors · Ge T700-GE-701D · 1994 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- A5E8EA (octal 51364352)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 17, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 18, 2021
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01315879
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- California Dept of Forestry and Fire Protection
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5500 Price Ave
Mcclellan, CA 95652-2438
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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 N480DF links to the rest of the register
- Sikorsky S-70 29 registered
- Sikorsky 815 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- General Electric T700-GE-701D 112 aircraft with this engine series · 1994 hp
- California Dept Of Forestry And Fire Protection 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Mcclellan, CA 102 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Sikorsky S-70 11 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Sikorsky S-70 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Sikorsky S-70 27 supplemental type certificates
- Where N480DF is now · Last seen October 16 at 2:04 pm.
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The public federal record on N480DF, 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 and Fire Protection, a government body, certificate issued August 17, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development, dated May 18, 2021, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 704081 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N480DF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 204-B (serial 7058, cancelled May 29, 1996). 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 N480DF. 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