Airbus Helicopters Inc AS350B3
N224LA is an Airbus Helicopters Inc AS350B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2022. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Lapd Air Support Division, a government body in Los Angeles, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 21, 2022.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 11:49 pm.
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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
- 9185
- 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
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A1F0D8 (octal 50370330)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 3, 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 · June 21, 2022
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01363186
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lapd Air Support Division
- 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
- 555 Ramirez St Spc 475
Los Angeles, CA 90012-2592
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N224LA links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 893 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 315 aircraft with this engine series · 952 hp
- Type certificate H9EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Lapd Air Support Division 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Los Angeles, CA 388 aircraft registered in this town
- Los Angeles International · LAX
- Whiteman Airport · WHP
- California 27,686 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 N224LA is now · Last seen yesterday at 11:49 pm.
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The public federal record on N224LA, 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 Lapd Air Support Division, a government body, certificate issued March 21, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 21, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9185 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N224LA 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 N224LA. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data