N612AZ is a 2025 Airplane Factory SLING TSI. It is a fixed-wing single-engine aircraft with 4 seats, powered by a Rotax 915 ISC3 A rated at 141 horsepower. The registration is active, with the registrant based in Caseville, MI. Its experimental airworthiness certificate was issued in Apr 2025. It has been registered to its current owner since Sep 2024. This page also carries 1 NTSB event.
- 1 year old
- 1 of 90 Airplane Factory SLING TSI
2025
2024
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The Safety Board's full report is available at http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/A_Acc1.htm. The Aircraft Accident Report number is NTSB/AAR-10-06.
On August 5, 2008, about 1941 Pacific daylight time, a Sikorsky S-61N helicopter, N612AZ, impacted trees and terrain during the initial climb after takeoff from Helispot 44 (H-44), located at an elevation of about 6,000 feet in mountainous terrain near Weaverville, California. The pilot-in-command, the safety crewmember, and seven firefighters were fatally injured; the copilot and three firefighters were seriously injured. Impact forces and a postcrash fire destroyed the helicopter, which was being operated by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) as a public flight to transport firefighters from H-44 to another helispot. The USFS had contracted with Carson Helicopters, Inc. (CHI) of Grants Pass, Oregon, for the services of the helicopter, which was registered to CHI and leased to Carson Helicopter Services, Inc. of Grants Pass. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident, and a company visual flight rules flight plan had been filed.
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