{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2017-01-31","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development; Market survey; Racing","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-08-21","city":"IRVINE","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"30168","engine_horsepower":1561,"engine_maker":"GE","engine_model":"T700-GE-700","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-18","maker":"Sikorsky","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SIKORSKY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8146004","mode_s_code":"50170675","mode_s_hex":"A0F1BD","model":"UH-60A","n_number":"N160AQ","name":"CORMORANT VENTURE LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"San Diego","damage":"SUBS","date":"2022-11-23","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR23LA045","probable_cause":"The failure of the crewmembers of the second helicopter to maintain visual separation with the first helicopter while complying with the LC controller\u2019s instruction to go around. Contributing to the accident were the nighttime conditions and the lack of a safety alert from the controller to either helicopter.","registration":"N160AQ","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on November 23, 2022 at San Diego, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N160AQ is a Sikorsky UH-60A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1982. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Cormorant Venture LLC, an LLC in Irvine, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; market survey; racing, dated January 31, 2017.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Cormorant Venture LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 21, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 31, 2017, 35 years after the 1982 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81-23588 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N160AQ according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N160AQ: Accident on November 23, 2022 at San Diego, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":15,"serial_number":"81-23588","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1900 MAIN ST STE 700","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01191816","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N160AQ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1982,"zip":"926147328"}