Agustawestland Spa AW189
N189EH is an Agustawestland Spa AW189, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2015. It has 21 seats. It is registered to Bristow LLC, an LLC in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 29, 2015 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 29, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Agustawestland Spa
- Model
- AW189
- Serial number
- 49018
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Ge CT7 SERIES · 1560 hp
- Seats
- 21
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A16287 (octal 50261207)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 29, 2015
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · December 29, 2015
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01171943
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bristow LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 600 Airport Blvd
Lake Charles, LA 70607-0610
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N189EH, 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 Bristow LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 29, 2015, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated December 29, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 49018 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N189EH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerospatiale AS332L (serial 2069, cancelled October 15, 1991). 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]
1 NTSB record under N189EH: Accident on March 11, 2001 at Mazama, WA: minor 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: Eurocopter AS-350 B2 Ecureuil · operated under 135
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control. Snow covered terrain, high and variable wind conditions, and failure of attaining the proper touchdown point were factors.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA01LA061 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