{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2017-01-28","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-03-08","city":"KALISPELL","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Loan or lien (security agreement)","doc_type_code":"S/A","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-29"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"30029","engine_horsepower":1543,"engine_maker":"GE","engine_model":"T700 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-03-08","maker":"Sikorsky","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SIKORSKY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8146004","mode_s_code":"50171010","mode_s_hex":"A0F208","model":"UH-60A","n_number":"N160DQ","name":"POLAR STAR CORP","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N160DQ is a Sikorsky UH-60A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 15 seats. It is registered to Polar Star CORP, a corporation in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 8, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated January 28, 2017. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Polar Star CORP, a corporation, certificate issued March 8, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 28, 2017, 38 years after the 1979 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 79-23326 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N160DQ according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 29, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N160DQ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":15,"serial_number":"79-23326","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"33 VILLAGE LOOP RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01194847","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N160DQ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"599012948"}