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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Continental Copters Inc TOMCAT MK5A
N9043T is a Continental Copters Inc TOMCAT MK5A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1975. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Blair Helicopter Service INC, a corporation in Lemoore, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated January 17, 1975.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Continental Copters Inc
- Model
- TOMCAT MK5A · all TOMCAT MK5As and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. This is how the Continental Copters Inc TOMCAT MK5A 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
- CCI74-10
- 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 · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1975
- Transponder code
- AC80DB (octal 53100333)
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 14, 2012
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 17, 1975
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00191291
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blair Helicopter Service 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
- 19101 Kent Ave
Lemoore, CA 93245-9137
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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 N9043T links to the rest of the register
- Continental Copters Inc TOMCAT MK5A 11 registered
- Continental Copters Inc 15 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming VO-435 series 191 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Type certificate H5SW · held by Scott'S-Bell 47 INC
- Blair Helicopter Service INC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Lemoore, CA 44 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,686 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming VO-435 series 8 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming VO-435 series 8 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N9043T, 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 Blair Helicopter Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 14, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated January 17, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CCI74-10 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9043T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182C (serial 52943, cancelled October 28, 1960). 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]
1 NTSB record under N9043T: Accident on July 5, 1994 at Minot, ND: substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Continental Copters MK 5 TOMCAT · operated under PUBU
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data