Hughes TH-55
N74914 is a Hughes TH-55, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1968. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Marienville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 18, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- TH-55 · all TH-55s and related versions
- Serial number
- 67-15442
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1968
- Transponder code
- AA1691 (octal 52413221)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 10, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 18, 1997
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00186001
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tachoir Steven E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 977 Watson Farm Rd
Marienville, PA 16239-6127
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N74914, 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 Tachoir Steven E, an individual, certificate issued July 10, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 18, 1997, 29 years after the 1968 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 67-15442 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N74914 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31-350 (serial 31-7305034, cancelled June 14, 1973). 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]
2 NTSB records under N74914: Accident on May 19, 2012 at Pittsfield, PA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on December 9, 1997 at Bushnell, FL: no 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes TH-55 · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain helicopter control during an encounter with loss of tail rotor effectiveness.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes TH-55 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from the trees during a hover. A factor was the pilot's diverted attention.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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