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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N949PH

Sikorsky S-92A

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesLouisiana

N949PH is a Sikorsky S-92A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2014. It has 19 seats. It is registered to Wells Fargo Equipment Finance INC, a corporation in Lafayette, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2014 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 13, 2014. 3 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan release, loan or lien (security agreement).

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

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Aircraft

Maker
Sikorsky
Model
S-92A · all S-92As 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-92 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
920264
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, 1 motor · Ge CT7-8A · 2520 hp
Seats
19
Year built
2014
Transponder code
AD2FE4 (octal 53227744)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 3, 2014
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 6, 2025
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 · November 13, 2014
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01143413

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wells Fargo Equipment Finance 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
C/O Phi Aviation LLC
2001 SE Evangeline Trwy
Lafayette, LA 70508-2156

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 3

2026-10-15Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)
2026-10-15Loan release
2026-10-19Loan or lien (security agreement)

Connections how N949PH links to the rest of the register

Design
Flies for
Engine
  • General Electric CT7-8A 43 aircraft with this engine series · 2520 hp
  • Type certificate R00024BO · held by Sikorsky Aircraft CORP
Owner
Place
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N949PH.json.

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The public federal record on N949PH, 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 Wells Fargo Equipment Finance INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 3, 2014, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated November 13, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 920264 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N949PH according to the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 19, 2026), and 1 release. The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N949PH. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data