Sikorsky S-70I
N8048X is a Sikorsky S-70I, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2011. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Sikorsky Aircraft CORP, a corporation in Stratford, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; crew training; market survey, dated July 14, 2026.
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 4:51 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S-70I · all S-70Is 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-70 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
- 703745
- 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-GE-701D · 1994 hp
- Seats
- 15
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- AAF43F (octal 52572077)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2014
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 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 · Research and development; Crew training; Market surveyFAA certificate purpose code 156 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 14, 2026
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01151054
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sikorsky Aircraft CORP
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6900 Main St Ms 21284
Stratford, CT 06614-1378
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 2
Connections how N8048X links to the rest of the register
- Sikorsky S-70 29 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-GE-701D 112 aircraft with this engine series · 1994 hp
- Sikorsky Aircraft CORP 28 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to April 4, 2027
- Stratford, CT 63 aircraft registered in this town
- Connecticut 1,607 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Sikorsky S-70 11 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Sikorsky S-70 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Sikorsky S-70 27 supplemental type certificates
- Where N8048X is now · Last seen October 15 at 4:51 pm.
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The public federal record on N8048X, 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 Sikorsky Aircraft CORP, a corporation, certificate issued May 16, 2014, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 14, 2026, 15 years after the 2011 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 703745 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8048X was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Brost Jay H EXEC 162-F KIT (serial 6467, cancelled February 10, 2010); Convair 340 (serial 3, cancelled June 12, 1998). 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 N8048X. 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