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.
Where is it now Last seen October 8 at 1:03 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S-61N · all S-61Ns and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Sikorsky S-61 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
- 61826
- 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 CT58-140-1 · 1400 hp
- Seats
- 28
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- AB491C (octal 52644434)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 25, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 25, 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 · March 15, 2007
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00872080
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Construction Helicopters 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
- 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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N826WC links to the rest of the register
- Sikorsky S-61 54 registered
- Sikorsky 815 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- General Electric CT58-140-1 20 aircraft with this engine series · 1400 hp
- Type certificate 1H15 · held by Sikorsky Aircraft
- Construction Helicopters LLC 17 aircraft in the fleet
- Howell, MI 111 aircraft registered in this town
- Livingston County/Spencer J Hardy · OZW
- Aeronut Park · 13M
- Michigan 7,217 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Sikorsky S-61 61 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Sikorsky S-61 325 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Sikorsky S-61 134 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the General Electric CT58-140-1 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the General Electric CT58-140-1 127 reports since 1995
- Where N826WC is now · Last seen October 8 at 1:03 pm.
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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]
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 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 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