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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Aerospatiale SA315B
N238HA is an Aerospatiale SA315B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1976. It has 5 seats. It is registered to High Altitude Helicopters INC, a corporation in Brewster, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 7, 2021. 1 document is on file: loan release.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerospatiale
- Model
- SA315B · all SA315Bs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. The Lama: an open steel-tube frame and lattice tail boom. This is how the Aerospatiale SA315 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
- 2438
- 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 ARTOUSTEIIIB · 858 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1976
- Transponder code
- A226E8 (octal 50423350)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 27, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 18, 2026
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 7, 2021
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00611664
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- High Altitude Helicopters INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 25 Airport Rd
Brewster, WA 98812
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Documents on file 1
Connections how N238HA links to the rest of the register
- Aerospatiale SA315 22 registered
- Aerospatiale 178 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARTOUSTEIIIB 10 aircraft with this engine series · 858 hp
- Type certificate H1IN · held by Airbus Helicopters
- High Altitude Helicopters INC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Brewster, WA 34 aircraft registered in this town
- Anderson Field · S97
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Aerospatiale SA315 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Aerospatiale SA315 28 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Aerospatiale SA315 62 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N238HA, 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 High Altitude Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 27, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 7, 2021, 45 years after the 1976 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 2438 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N238HA according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Loan release (October 21, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N238HA: Accident on September 18, 2026 at Workmore, GA: no injuries. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerospatiale SA315 · operated under 137
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data