Sikorsky H-19D
N9894 is a Sikorsky H-19D, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 12 seats. It is registered to Sierra Aeronautics LLC, an LLC in Franklin, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 21, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sikorsky
- Model
- H-19D
- Serial number
- 55998
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 71 mph
- Transponder code
- ADCF77 (octal 53347567)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 21, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00763550
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sierra Aeronautics LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 40 Sulphur Spring Church Rd
Franklin, KY 42134-8569
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.
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The public federal record on N9894, 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 Sierra Aeronautics LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 21, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. 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 55998 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9894 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]
1 NTSB record under N9894: Accident on March 19, 1991 at Richvale, CA: 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: Sikorsky H-19/S55 · operated under 137
THE FAILURE OF THE ENGINE'S NUMBER 4 CYLINDER INTAKE VALVE KEEPER. TREES UNDER THE HELICOPTER AT THE TIME OF THE LOSS OF ENGINE POWER WERE FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX91LA137 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data