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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Keystone Helicopter S-76C
N278FX is a Keystone Helicopter S-76C, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2008. It has 14 seats. It is registered to Flexjet Vertical Lift LLC, an LLC in Stratford, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 18, 2026. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Associated Aircraft Group, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen Friday at 8:55 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Keystone Helicopter
- Model
- S-76C · all S-76Cs 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. This is how the Keystone Helicopter S-76 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
- 760750
- 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, 2 motors · Turbomeca ARRIEL 2S2 · 817 hp
- Seats
- 14
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A2C4C7 (octal 50542307)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 9, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 18, 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 18, 2026
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01014797
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flexjet Vertical Lift LLC
- 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
- 900 Great Meadow Rd
Stratford, CT 06615-7588
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
Connections how N278FX links to the rest of the register
- Keystone Helicopter S-76 10 registered
- Keystone Helicopter 10 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Associated Aircraft Group, LLC · charter operator
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2S2 57 aircraft with this engine series · 817 hp
- Type certificate H1NE · held by Sikorsky Aircraft CORP
- Flexjet Vertical Lift LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Stratford, CT 63 aircraft registered in this town
- Connecticut 1,607 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2S2 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2S2 52 reports since 1995
- Where N278FX is now · Last seen Friday at 8:55 pm.
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The public federal record on N278FX, 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 Flexjet Vertical Lift LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 9, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 18, 2026, 18 years after the 2008 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 760750 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N278FX according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 1, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N278FX. 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 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
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