Sud Aviation SA 318C
N279DB is a Sud Aviation SA 318C, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 5 seats. It is registered to Flying Legends INC, a non-citizen corporation in Newcastle, Delaware. The FAA lists the registration as "non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports" (certificate issued October 11, 2022). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 9, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sud Aviation
- Model
- SA 318C · all SA 318Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2075
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ASTAZOU IIA · 546 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A2C838 (octal 50544070)
Registration
- Status
- Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports
- Certificate issued
- October 11, 2022
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 17, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 9, 2005
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00155289
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying Legends INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 251 Little Falls Dr
Newcastle, DE 19808-1674
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N279DB, 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.
Registration status is "Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [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 2075 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N279DB 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N279DB. 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 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