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Sikorsky S-76B
N976AL is a Sikorsky S-76B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 14 seats. It is registered to Ballard Aviation INC, a corporation in Newton, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 10, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S-76B · all S-76Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA 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-76 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
- 760439
- 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, 2 motors
- Seats
- 14
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AD99FA (octal 53314772)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 10, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01254995
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ballard Aviation 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
- 1720 N Oliver Rd
Newton, KS 67114-9496
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 N976AL links to the rest of the register
- Sikorsky S-76 141 registered
- Sikorsky 815 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate H1NE · held by Sikorsky Aircraft CORP
- Ballard Aviation INC 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to May 18, 2027
- Newton, KS 37 aircraft registered in this town
- Newton-City-County · EWK
- Kansas 5,738 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Sikorsky S-76 77 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Sikorsky S-76 3,841 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Sikorsky S-76 463 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N976AL, 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 Ballard Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 10, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 760439 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N976AL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-8-71 (serial 45976, cancelled February 12, 2003). 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 N976AL. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data