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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Aerospatiale AS350BA
N234BU is an Aerospatiale AS350BA, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 6 seats. It is registered to Heli-Usa CORP, an LLC in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 28, 2013.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerospatiale
- Model
- AS350BA · all AS350BAs 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 Aerospatiale AS350 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
- 1210
- 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 · Turbomeca ARRIEL 1B · 641 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A21788 (octal 50413610)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 8, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 23, 2024
- 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 · May 28, 2013
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00305902
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heli-Usa CORP
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 9465 Clearwood Dr Apt 631
Houston, TX 77075-4062
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N234BU links to the rest of the register
- Aerospatiale AS350 65 registered
- Aerospatiale 178 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 1B 18 aircraft with this engine series · 641 hp
- Type certificate H9EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Heli-Usa CORP 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Houston, TX 1,179 aircraft registered in this town
- Conroe/North Houston Regional · CXO
- David Wayne Hooks Memorial · DWH
- Ellington Airport · EFD
- George Bush Intcntl/Houston Airport · IAH
- 8 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,945 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Aerospatiale AS350 4,985 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 1B 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 1B 807 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N234BU.json.
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The public federal record on N234BU, 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 Heli-Usa CORP, an LLC, certificate issued October 8, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1210 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N234BU 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 N234BU. 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 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data