Helicopter Transport Svc Llc CH-54A
N793HT is a Helicopter Transport Svc Llc CH-54A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1967. It has 7 seats. It is registered to U S Leaseco INC, a non-citizen corporation in Aurora, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 2008 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other, dated July 1, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Helicopter Transport Svc Llc
- Model
- CH-54A
- Serial number
- 67-18427
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · P & W JFTD12A-4A · 4500 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1967
- Transponder code
- AAC3EB (octal 52541753)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 24, 2008
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Other · July 1, 2010
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00184152
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- U S Leaseco INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 14497 Keil Rd NE
Aurora, OR 97002-9467
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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 N793HT, 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 U S Leaseco INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued April 24, 2008, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 1, 2010, 43 years after the 1967 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 67-18427 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N793HT 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 N793HT: Accident on August 7, 2026 at Cove Fort, UT: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Helicopter Transport Services CH-54A · operated under 133
On August 7, 2026, about 1044 mountain daylight time, a Helicopter Transport Services (Sikorsky) CH-54A Skycrane Helitanker, N793HT, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Cove Fort, Utah. The pilot and copilot were fatally injured. The helicopter was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 133 aerial firefighting flight. The helicopter, owned and operated by Helicopter Transport Services, was conducting aerial fire suppression operations under an exclusive-use contract with the United States Forest Service (USFS) in support of the Wide Mouth 2 Fire in central U…
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- 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