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N480DF

Sikorsky S-70I

N480DF is a Sikorsky S-70I, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2019. It has 15 seats. It is registered to California Dept Of Forestry And Fire Protection, a government body in Mcclellan, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated May 18, 2021.

Aircraft

Maker
Sikorsky
Model
S-70I
Serial number
704081
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 2 motors · Ge T700-GE-701D · 1994 hp
Seats
15
Year built
2019
Transponder code
A5E8EA (octal 51364352)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 17, 2021
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Research and development · May 18, 2021
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01315879

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
California Dept Of Forestry And 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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1996-05-29Bell 204-B · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response

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