Sikorsky UH-34D
N855BA is a Sikorsky UH-34D, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1961. It has 14 seats. It is registered to an individual in State Center, Iowa. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 31, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- UH-34D
- Serial number
- 148783
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming R-1820 SER · 1300 hp
- Seats
- 14
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 73 mph
- Transponder code
- ABBA05 (octal 52735005)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · October 31, 2009
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00722846
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2883 Brown Ave
State Center, IA 50247-9678
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.
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The public federal record on N855BA, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 31, 2009, 48 years after the 1961 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 148783 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N855BA 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 N855BA. 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