Airbus Helicopters Inc AS350B3
N183SD is an Airbus Helicopters Inc AS350B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2017. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Orange County Sheriff'S Department, a government body in Costa Mesa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 7, 2017 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 12, 2017.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 11:41 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Inc
- Model
- AS350B3 · all AS350B3s 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. Composite rotor blades and a composite Starflex rotor head. This is how the Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 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
- 8376
- 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 · Safran ARRIEL 2D · 952 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A14D65 (octal 50246545)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 7, 2017
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 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 · July 12, 2017
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01252303
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Orange County Sheriff'S Department
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 361 Paularino Ave Hngr 26
Costa Mesa, CA 92626-4649 - Co-owners
- C/O Coroner Air Support
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N183SD links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 892 registered
- Airbus Helicopters Inc 379 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Safran ARRIEL 2D 314 aircraft with this engine series · 952 hp
- Type certificate H9EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Orange County Sheriff'S Department 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Costa Mesa, CA 542 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,658 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 156 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 1,007 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 685 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Safran ARRIEL 2D 8 airworthiness directives
- Where N183SD is now · Last seen October 17 at 11:41 am.
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The public federal record on N183SD, 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 Orange County Sheriff'S Department, a government body, certificate issued December 7, 2017, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 12, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8376 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N183SD 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N183SD. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data