American Eurocopter Llc AS350B3
N279AM is an American Eurocopter Llc AS350B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). 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 January 14, 2015 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 1, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Eurocopter Llc
- Model
- AS350B3 · all AS350B3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4685
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIEL 2B1 · 747 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A2C7F7 (octal 50543767)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 14, 2015
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- December 11, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 1, 2009
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01029224
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Methods LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5500 S Quebec St Ste 300
Greenwood Village, CO 80111-1914
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N279AM, 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 January 14, 2015, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4685 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N279AM according to the deregistered file. [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 N279AM: Accident on August 9, 2025 at Las Cruces, NM: no 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: American Eurocopter LLC AS350B3 · operated under 135
On August 8, 2025, about 1946 mountain daylight time, an Airbus AS350 B3, N279AM, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Las Cruces, New Mexico. The pilot, two crew members and a passenger were not injured. The helicopter was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135 air medical flight. The pilot reported that the flight departed Gila Regional Heliport (NM85) Silver City, New Mexico with a patient, to conduct an air ambulance operation to Memorial Medical Center Heliport (NM77) Las Cruces, New Mexico. The pilot approached the NM77 helipad to a hov…
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data