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A Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125, the same model family as N253CH
A Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 like this one, not N253CH itself. Photo: fir0002 flagstaffotos [at] gmail.com Canon 20D + Canon 400mm f/5.6 L, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons. Pictures of N253CH itself may be on Planespotters · JetPhotos · Airliners.net. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N253CH

Eurocopter AS 350 B2

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlaska

N253CH is an Eurocopter AS 350 B2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Coastal Helicopters INC, a corporation in Juneau, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2018 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 28, 1997.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Coastal Helicopters, Inc, so it can be flown for hire.

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Aircraft

Maker
Eurocopter
Model
AS 350 B2 · all AS 350 B2s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A 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
2974
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 1SER · 681 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1997
Transponder code
A262DD (octal 50461335)

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 15, 2018
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 28, 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 · April 28, 1997
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00206531

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Coastal 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
8995 Yandukin Drive
Juneau, AK 99801
Charter N253CH with Coastal Helicopters, Inc:

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

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The public federal record on N253CH, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Coastal Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 15, 2018, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 28, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2974 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N253CH according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N253CH. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data