American Eurocopter Corp AS350B3
N257AM is an American Eurocopter Corp AS350B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2011. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Air Methods LLC, an LLC in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 11, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Eurocopter Corp
- Model
- AS350B3 · all AS350B3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 7203
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIEL 2B1 · 747 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A2718B (octal 50470613)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 13, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 11, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 11, 2011
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01071595
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Methods LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5500 S Quebec St Ste 300
Greenwood Village, CO 80111-1926
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N257AM, 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 Air Methods LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 13, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 11, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7203 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N257AM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Swearingen SA226TC (serial TC389, cancelled September 12, 1994). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N257AM: Accident on September 1, 1988 at Emporia, KS: serious injuries, minor damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Swearingen SA-226 · operated under 135
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC88LA167 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data