Sikorsky S-61N
N826WC is a Sikorsky S-61N, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1980. It has 28 seats. It is registered to Construction Helicopters LLC, an LLC in Howell, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 15, 2007. 2 documents are on file: loan or lien (security agreement), bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S-61N
- Serial number
- 61826
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Ge CT58-140-1 · 1400 hp
- Seats
- 28
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- AB491C (octal 52644434)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 25, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 25, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · March 15, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00872080
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Construction Helicopters LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3679 Bowen Rd
Howell, MI 48855-7755
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 2
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The public federal record on N826WC, 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 Construction Helicopters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 25, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 15, 2007, 27 years after the 1980 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 61826 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N826WC according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 25, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N826WC. 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 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