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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026S N I A S SE 3130 ALOUETTE II
N176DC is a S N I A S SE 3130 ALOUETTE II, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 5 seats. It is registered to Cyclone Aviation LLC, an LLC in Haymarket, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 19, 2022.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- S N I A S
- Model
- SE 3130 ALOUETTE II · all SE 3130 ALOUETTE IIs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. The Alouette II: an open steel-tube frame and lattice tail boom. This is how the S N I A S SE 3130 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
- 1719
- 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 · Turbomeca ARTOUSTE IIC6 · 400 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A12FC5 (octal 50227705)
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 14, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 10, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 19, 2022
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00008929
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cyclone Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4551 Chimneys West Dr
Haymarket, VA 20169-2541
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N176DC links to the rest of the register
- S N I A S SE 3130 7 registered
- S N I A S 21 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARTOUSTE IIC6 3 aircraft with this engine series · 400 hp
- Type certificate 7H1 · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Cyclone Aviation LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Haymarket, VA 21 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the S N I A S SE 3130 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the S N I A S SE 3130 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the S N I A S SE 3130 30 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Turbomeca (Safran) ARTOUSTE IIC6 1 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N176DC, 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 Cyclone Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 14, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1719 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N176DC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R44 II (serial 11842, cancelled February 2, 2010). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N176DC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data