Sikorsky S-61N
N617CK is a Sikorsky S-61N, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1962. It has 28 seats. It is registered to Croman CORP, a corporation in White City, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2014 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 26, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S-61N · all S-61Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 61164
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Ge CT58-140-2 · 1400 hp
- Seats
- 28
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A808FB (octal 52004373)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 5, 2014
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · January 26, 2015
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01047504
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Croman CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 801 Avenue C
White City, OR 97503-1082
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.
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The public federal record on N617CK, 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 Croman CORP, a corporation, certificate issued December 5, 2014, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 26, 2015, 53 years after the 1962 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 61164 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N617CK 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]
1 NTSB record under N617CK: Accident on September 1, 2022 at Shady Cove, OR: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sikorsky S-61N · operated under 133
A total loss of engine power due to the failure of the No. 2 engine’s stage 1 turbine blades as a result of an unreported hot start two days earlier.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR22LA330 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data