Sikorsky S-76C
N707DS is a Sikorsky S-76C, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 14 seats. It is registered to Cas LLC, an LLC in Longboat Key, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 15, 2018.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Zip Aviation LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S-76C · all S-76Cs 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 S-76 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
- 760471
- 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 · Turbomeca ARRIEL 2S1 · 833 hp
- Seats
- 14
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A96EEB (octal 52267353)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2026
- 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 15, 2018
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00126541
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cas 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
- 603 Longboat Club Rd Unit 1101N
Longboat Key, FL 34228-4828
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
Connections how N707DS links to the rest of the register
- Sikorsky S-76 141 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
- Zip Aviation LLC · charter operator
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2S1 30 aircraft with this engine series · 833 hp
- Type certificate H1NE · held by Sikorsky Aircraft CORP
- Cas LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Longboat Key, FL 23 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,706 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Sikorsky S-76 77 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Sikorsky S-76 3,841 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Sikorsky S-76 463 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2S1 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2S1 45 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N707DS, 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 Cas LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 7, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 15, 2018, 21 years after the 1997 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 760471 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N707DS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Top Dog 503 (serial 001, cancelled April 17, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N707DS. 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