{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1982-02-04","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Other; Aerial surveying; Patrolling; Aerial advertising; Weather control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-10-07","city":"FRANKLIN","country_code":"US","county_code":"213","cruise_speed_mph":71,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-16","maker":"Sikorsky","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SIKORSKY","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"814161G","mode_s_code":"53244346","mode_s_hex":"AD48E6","model":"UH-19D","n_number":"N955TC","name":"SIERRA AERONAUTICS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Brewster","damage":"SUBS","date":"2019-05-29","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"WPR19LA168","probable_cause":"A reported mechanical malfunction and a hard landing for reasons that could not be determined based on available evidence.","registration":"N955TC","state":"WA","summary":"Accident on May 29, 2019 at Brewster, WA: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N955TC is a Sikorsky UH-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 October 7, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other; aerial surveying; patrolling; aerial advertising; weather control, dated February 4, 1982.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Sierra Aeronautics LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 7, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other; aerial surveying; patrolling; aerial advertising; weather control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57-5961 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N955TC 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 N955TC: Accident on May 29, 2019 at Brewster, WA: minor 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":12,"serial_number":"57-5961","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"40 SULPHUR SPRING CHURCH RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00712284","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N955TC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"421348569"}