Continental Copters Inc TOMCAT MK5A
N9045T 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 Scotts Helicopter Service INC, a corporation in Le Sueur, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 26, 2011 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 21, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Continental Copters Inc
- Model
- TOMCAT MK5A · all TOMCAT MK5As and related versions
- Serial number
- CCI-75-2
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1975
- Transponder code
- AC8121 (octal 53100441)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 26, 2011
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · April 21, 1975
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00981291
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scotts Helicopter Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 92
Le Sueur, MN 56058-0092
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9045T, 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 Scotts Helicopter Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 26, 2011, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 21, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CCI-75-2 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9045T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182C (serial 52945, cancelled November 17, 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 N9045T: Accident on June 14, 2015 at Elk Mound, WI: 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: Continental Copters INC. TOMCAT MK5A · operated under 137
The pilot's failure to maintain a positive rate of climb after taking off from the service truck, which resulted in the helicopter impacting terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA15CA122 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