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N470S

Hopkins William C SH-3A

Valid Nevada

N470S is a Hopkins William C SH-3A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 7, 1991.

Aircraft

Maker
Hopkins William C
Model
SH-3A
Serial number
3080
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
Seats
3
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A5C2AA (octal 51341252)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 13, 2024
Expires
September 30, 2031
Last FAA action
September 13, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · May 7, 1991
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00795241

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hopkins William C
Type
Individual
Address
16775 Maggie Cir
Reno, NV 89511-2746

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

2013-03-18Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data