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N494AA

Sikorsky UH-60L

Valid Alabama

N494AA is a Sikorsky UH-60L, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 18 seats. It is registered to Ace Aeronautics LLC, an LLC in Guntersville, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Sikorsky
Model
UH-60L · all UH-60Ls and related versions
Serial number
93-26495
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 2 motors
Seats
18
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A61EF5 (octal 51417365)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 29, 2026
Expires
June 30, 2033
Last FAA action
June 29, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
01564257

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ace Aeronautics LLC
Type
LLC
Address
105 Buck Island Rd
Guntersville, AL 35976-8697

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 1

2020-02-07Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82(MD-82) · Registration pending, canceled

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N494AA, 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 Ace Aeronautics LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 29, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 93-26495 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N494AA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82(MD-82) (serial 49732, cancelled February 7, 2020). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N494AA. 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