Sikorsky UH-60A
N553BS is a Sikorsky UH-60A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1983. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Bhh Leasing # 4 LLC, an LLC in Pensacola, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 2017 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 27, 2018.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- UH-60A · all UH-60As 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 UH-60 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
- 83-23859
- 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
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A70ABA (octal 51605272)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 30, 2017
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 27, 2018
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01178253
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bhh Leasing # 4 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
- 10100 Aileron Ave
Pensacola, FL 32506-8223
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N553BS links to the rest of the register
- Sikorsky UH-60 373 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 series 25 aircraft with this engine series · 1543 hp
- Bhh Leasing # 4 LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Pensacola, FL 507 aircraft registered in this town
- Pensacola International · PNS
- Roscoe Field · 82J
- Florida 21,706 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Sikorsky UH-60 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Sikorsky UH-60 23 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the General Electric T700 series 2 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N553BS, 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 Bhh Leasing # 4 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 30, 2017, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 27, 2018, 35 years after the 1983 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 83-23859 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N553BS according to the deregistered file. [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 N553BS. 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