{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"2025-11-08","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Other","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-04-29","city":"MISSOULA","country_code":"US","county_code":"063","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"30155","engine_horsepower":1994,"engine_maker":"GE","engine_model":"T700-GE-701D","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-10-01","maker":"Sikorsky","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SIKORSKY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8141835","mode_s_code":"53042372","mode_s_hex":"AC44FA","model":"UH-60L","n_number":"N89WL","name":"CORPAT INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"HOUSTON","damage":"DEST","date":"1997-02-28","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"FTW97FA109","probable_cause":"The loss of engine power due to fuel starvation as result of the pilot's improper fuel management. Factors were the pilot's lack of familiarity with the airplane, the dark night, the lack of cockpit lights, and the lack of suitable terrain for the pilot to execute a forced landing.","registration":"N89WL","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on February 28, 1997 at Houston, TX: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N89WL is a Sikorsky UH-60L, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1983. It has 18 seats. It is registered to Corpat INC, a corporation in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other, dated November 8, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Corpat INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 29, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 8, 2025, 42 years after the 1983 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 83-23888 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N89WL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Keating Joseph M Q-200 (serial 2820, cancelled January 17, 2018). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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 N89WL: Accident on February 28, 1997 at Houston, TX: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":18,"serial_number":"83-23888","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 16210","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01446999","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N89WL","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1983,"zip":"598086210"}