Airbus Helicopters Inc AS350B3
N185SD is an Airbus Helicopters Inc AS350B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2016. 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 August 22, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 12, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Inc
- Model
- AS350B3 · all AS350B3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 8125
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIEL 2D · 802 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A154D3 (octal 50252323)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 22, 2016
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 12, 2016
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01192293
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Orange County Sheriff'S Department
- Type
- Government
- Address
- C/O Coroner Air Support
361 Paularino Ave Hngr 26
Costa Mesa, CA 92626-4649
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N185SD, 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 August 22, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 12, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8125 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N185SD 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 N185SD: Accident on June 17, 1998 at Laguna Beach, CA: 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: Mcdonnell Douglas 600N · operated under 091
The inadvertent entanglement of an external load, which interfered with the pilot's ability to control the aircraft.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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