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N478DF

Sikorsky S-70I

N478DF is a Sikorsky S-70I, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2020. It has 15 seats. It is registered to California Dept Of Forestry & Fire Protection, a government body in Mcclellan, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 19, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated September 10, 2022.

Aircraft

Maker
Sikorsky
Model
S-70I
Serial number
704110
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 2 motors · Ge T700-GE-701D · 1994 hp
Seats
15
Year built
2020
Transponder code
A5DF23 (octal 51357443)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 19, 2023
Expires
October 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 19, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Research and development · September 10, 2022
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01330417

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
California Dept Of Forestry & Fire Protection
Type
Government
Address
5500 Price Ave
Mcclellan, CA 95652-2438

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.

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