Eurocopter AS 350 B3
N172AE is an Eurocopter AS 350 B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2004. It has 6 seats. It is registered to US Department Of Homeland Security, a government body in Washington, District of Columbia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 16, 2005 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 14, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter
- Model
- AS 350 B3 · all AS 350 B3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 3839
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIEL 2B1 · 747 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A120A0 (octal 50220240)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 16, 2005
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 14, 2004
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00129389
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- US Department Of Homeland Security
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW Rm 6.4A
Washington, DC 20229-0002 - Co-owners
- US Customs & Border Protection / Office Of Air & Marine
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N172AE, 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 US Department Of Homeland Security, a government body, certificate issued February 16, 2005, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 14, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3839 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N172AE 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 N172AE: Accident on October 2, 2008 at Blaine, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Eurocopter AS350B3 · operated under PUBU
The pilot's failure to maintain main rotor rpm, which resulted in a hard landing. Contributing to the accident were the flight instructor's delayed remedial action and inadequate supervision of the flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR09TA001 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data