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A Sikorsky S-70, the same model family as N484DF
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N484DF

Sikorsky S-70I

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesCalifornia

N484DF 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 & Fire Protection, a government body in Mcclellan, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 4, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated May 31, 2023.

Where is it now Last seen October 18 at 1:41 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Sikorsky
Model
S-70I · all S-70Is and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A 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
704046
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 SERIES · 1543 hp
Seats
15
Year built
2019
Transponder code
A5F7C6 (octal 51373706)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
May 4, 2023
Expires
May 31, 2030
Last FAA action
May 4, 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 31, 2023
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01306690

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
California Dept of Forestry & 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.

Connections how N484DF links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Mcclellan, CA 102 aircraft registered in this town
  • California 27,610 aircraft registered
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N484DF.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N484DF, 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 Dept of Forestry & Fire Protection, a government body, certificate issued May 4, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 31, 2023, 4 years after the 2019 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 704046 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N484DF 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 N484DF. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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