Erickson S64E
N189AC is an Erickson S64E, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Helicopter Express LLC, an LLC in Chamblee, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated November 28, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Erickson
- Model
- S64E · all S64Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 641001
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · P & W JFTD12A-4A · 4500 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A1621E (octal 50261036)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 30, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 30, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · November 28, 2011
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00176651
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Helicopter Express LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2025 Flightway Dr
Chamblee, GA 30341-3349
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 N189AC, 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 Helicopter Express LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 30, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 28, 2011, 14 years after the 1997 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 641001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N189AC 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]
2 NTSB records under N189AC: Accident on October 1, 2006 at Ojai, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 12, 1994 at Marana, AZ: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Erickson S64E · operated under PUBU
The pilot-in-command's improper remedial action, which resulted in a loss of helicopter control. Contributing factors were the retardant tank and snorkel designs.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX07TA001 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Champion (Acac) 8KCAB · operated under 091
The pilot's delayed pullout from a vertical aerobatic maneuver for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX94LA160 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
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