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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Aerospatiale SA341G GAZELLE
N16KH is an Aerospatiale SA341G GAZELLE, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in El Paso, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 18, 1978.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerospatiale
- Model
- SA341G GAZELLE · all SA341G GAZELLEs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. The Gazelle: composite rotor blades and a shrouded tail rotor. This is how the Aerospatiale SA341 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1456
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 110 mph
- Transponder code
- A0F03E (octal 50170076)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 18, 1978
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00413097
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bella Charles
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4711 Atlas Ave
El Paso, TX 79904-3315
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N16KH links to the rest of the register
- Aerospatiale SA341 21 registered
- Aerospatiale 178 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate H6EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- El Paso, TX 312 aircraft registered in this town
- EL Paso International · ELP
- Texas 29,945 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N16KH.json.
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The public federal record on N16KH, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Bella Charles, an individual, certificate issued April 7, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1456 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N16KH according to the deregistered file. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N16KH: Accident on March 6, 2003 at Alpine, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerospatiale SA341G · operated under 135
The pilot's failure to maintain translational lift, which resulted in an uncontrolled descent of the helicopter during takeoff. A contributing factor was the gusty tailwind condition.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data