Airbus Helicopters AS 350B3
N253AH is an Airbus Helicopters AS 350B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2026. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Airbus Helicopters INC, a non-citizen corporation in Grand Prairie, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 25, 2026. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Where is it now Last seen October 7 at 12:46 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters
- Model
- AS 350B3 · all AS 350B3s 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
- 9973
- 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
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2026
- Transponder code
- A262AB (octal 50461253)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 10, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 10, 2026
- 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 · September 25, 2026
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01576179
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Airbus Helicopters INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporationFAA type of owner code 8 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2701 N Forum Dr
Grand Prairie, TX 75052-8927
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N253AH links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 893 registered
- Airbus Helicopters 267 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 317 aircraft with this engine series · 952 hp
- Type certificate H9EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Airbus Helicopters INC 73 aircraft in the fleet
- Grand Prairie, TX 166 aircraft registered in this town
- Grand Prairie Municipal · GPM
- Texas 29,966 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 N253AH is now · Last seen October 7 at 12:46 pm.
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The public federal record on N253AH, 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 Airbus Helicopters INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued September 10, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 25, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9973 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N253AH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK 117 C-2 (serial 9724, cancelled March 24, 2016). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 7, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N253AH. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data