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N963NW

Northwest Rotorcraft Llc UH-60A

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesWashington

N963NW is a Northwest Rotorcraft Llc UH-60A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1981. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Northwest Helicopters LLC, an LLC in Olympia, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2015 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other, dated February 21, 2025.

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Aircraft

Maker
Northwest Rotorcraft Llc
Model
UH-60A
Serial number
80-23421
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 T700-GE-700 · 1561 hp
Seats
12
Year built
1981
Transponder code
AD688C (octal 53264214)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
January 22, 2015
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
July 10, 2024
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 control; Forest; OtherFAA certificate purpose code 140 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 21, 2025
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01169668

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Northwest Helicopters 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
1000 85Th Ave SE
Olympia, WA 98501-5707

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Documents on file 0

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

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The public federal record on N963NW, 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 Northwest Helicopters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 22, 2015, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 21, 2025, 44 years after the 1981 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 80-23421 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N963NW 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 N963NW. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data