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Sikorsky SH-3H
N983WW is a Sikorsky SH-3H, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1961. It has 28 seats. It is registered to Carson Helicopters INC, a corporation in Perkasie, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated October 3, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- SH-3H · all SH-3Hs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Sikorsky SH-3 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
- 148983
- 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 · Ge CT58 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Fuel
- Electricity
- Seats
- 28
- Year built
- 1961
- Transponder code
- ADB852 (octal 53334122)
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 5, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 3, 2025
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01062318
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carson Helicopters 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
- 952 Blooming Glen Rd
Perkasie, PA 18944-2965
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N983WW links to the rest of the register
- Sikorsky SH-3 14 registered
- Sikorsky 827 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- General Electric CT58 series 13 aircraft with this engine series · 1350 hp
- Carson Helicopters INC 13 aircraft in the fleet
- Perkasie, PA 37 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennridge Airport · CKZ
- Pennsylvania 6,195 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Sikorsky SH-3 4 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Sikorsky SH-3 12 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the General Electric CT58 series 16 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the General Electric CT58 series 2 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N983WW, 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 Carson Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 5, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 3, 2025, 64 years after the 1961 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 148983 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N983WW according to the deregistered file. [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 N983WW. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data