Sikorsky S55B
N855TC is a Sikorsky S55B, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1956. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Sierra Aeronautics LLC, an LLC in Franklin, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 21, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 31, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S55B · all S55Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 551005
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright R-1300-3D · 800 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- ABBB97 (octal 52735627)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 21, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 31, 2006
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00256949
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sierra Aeronautics LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 40 Sulphur Spring Church Rd
Franklin, KY 42134-8569
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 N855TC, 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 Sierra Aeronautics LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 21, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 31, 2006, 50 years after the 1956 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 551005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N855TC 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 N855TC: Accident on July 25, 2011 at Brewster, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Sikorsky S-55B · operated under 091
The pilot did not maintain main rotor rpm while hovering in gusting wind conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR11LA356 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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