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Sikorsky S-58B
N887 is a Sikorsky S-58B, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1957. It has 14 seats. It is registered to Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society INC, a corporation in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 2009 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated February 20, 1962.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S-58B · all S-58Bs 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-58 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
- 58482
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Wright C9HE SERIES · 1525 hp
- Seats
- 14
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AC37D5 (octal 53033725)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 12, 2009
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; OtherFAA certificate purpose code 130 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 20, 1962
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00451841
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 8325 Travelair St
Houston, TX 77061-4716
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N887 links to the rest of the register
- Sikorsky S-58 25 registered
- Sikorsky 827 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wright C9HE series 3 aircraft with this engine series · 1525 hp
- Type certificate 1H11 · held by California Helicopter Airways INC
- Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Houston, TX 1,181 aircraft registered in this town
- Conroe/North Houston Regional · CXO
- David Wayne Hooks Memorial · DWH
- Ellington Airport · EFD
- George Bush Intcntl/Houston Airport · IAH
- 8 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,939 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Sikorsky S-58 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Sikorsky S-58 41 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Sikorsky S-58 40 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N887, 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 Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 12, 2009, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 20, 1962, 5 years after the 1957 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 58482 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N887 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Morse Thomas SCOUT (serial 231, cancelled April 2, 1930). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N887. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data