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A Sikorsky S-76, the same model family as N883AL
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026
N883AL

Sikorsky S-76C

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesLouisiana

N883AL is a Sikorsky S-76C, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2007. It has 14 seats. It is registered to Bristow US LLC, an LLC in New Iberia, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2007 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 3, 2011.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Bristow LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.

Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 7:49 am.

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Aircraft

Maker
Sikorsky
Model
S-76C · all S-76Cs and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A 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-76 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
760677
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 · Turbomeca ARRIEL 2S2 · 817 hp
Seats
14
Year built
2007
Transponder code
AC2905 (octal 53024405)

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 15, 2007
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
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 · October 3, 2011
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00371789

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bristow US 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
4605 Industrial Dr
New Iberia, LA 70560-9124
Charter N883AL with Bristow LLC:

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N883AL links to the rest of the register

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N883AL, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Bristow US LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 15, 2007, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 3, 2011, 4 years after the 2007 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 760677 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N883AL according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N883AL. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data