Agustawestland Philadelphia AW139
N181J is an Agustawestland Philadelphia AW139, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2018. It has 17 seats. It is registered to Powderbird LLC, an LLC in Providence, Rhode Island. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a special flight permit airworthiness certificate for ferry flight for repairs, alterations, maintenance or storage, dated July 11, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Agustawestland Philadelphia
- Model
- AW139 · all AW139s and related versions
- Serial number
- 41544
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6C-67C · 1679 hp
- Seats
- 17
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A1452B (octal 50242453)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 2, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- October 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Special flight permit · Ferry flight for repairs, alterations, maintenance or storage · July 11, 2022
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 01278825
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Powderbird LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- C/O Providence Equity Partners
50 Kennedy Plz Fl 18
Providence, RI 02903-2393
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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 2
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The public federal record on N181J, 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 Powderbird LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 2, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 11, 2022, 4 years after the 2018 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 41544 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N181J was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Osborne STARDUSTER-SA-700 (serial 1, cancelled July 14, 1976); Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-584, cancelled June 14, 1971). 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 N181J. 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 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data