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A Sikorsky S-58, the same model family as N504
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026
N504

Sikorsky S58E

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesWashington

N504 is a Sikorsky S58E, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1957. It has 14 seats. It is registered to Vi 1 LLC, an LLC in Brewster, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2015 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 10, 1982.

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Aircraft

Maker
Sikorsky
Model
S58E · all S58Es and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Sikorsky S-58 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
57-1717
Type
RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Wright R-1820 SER · 1475 hp
Seats
14
Year built
1957
Cruising speed
81 mph
Transponder code
A648CB (octal 51444313)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
June 10, 2015
Expires
June 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 19, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 10, 1982
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00442313

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Vi 1 LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 735
Brewster, WA 98812-0735

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 3

1970-06-19Sud Aviation SE3130 ALOUETTE II · Valid registration
1948-03-31Cessna T-50 · Valid registration
1930-03-14Robinson /Christensen /Wright FIREFLY · Valid registration

Connections how N504 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Wright R-1820 series 185 aircraft with this engine series · 1475 hp
  • Type certificate 1H11 · held by California Helicopter Airways INC
Owner
Place

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N504.json.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N504, 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 Vi 1 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 10, 2015, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 10, 1982, 25 years after the 1957 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 57-1717 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N504 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Sud Aviation SE3130 ALOUETTE II (serial 1085, cancelled June 19, 1970); Cessna T-50 (serial 4449, cancelled March 31, 1948); Robinson /Christensen /Wright FIREFLY (serial CRW-1, cancelled March 14, 1930). 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 N504. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data