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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Sud 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sud Aviation
- Model
- SA 318C · all SA 318Cs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. The Alouette II: an open steel-tube frame and lattice tail boom. This is how the Sud Aviation SA 318 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
- 2075
- 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 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 reportsFAA registration status code N (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 11, 2022
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 17, 2025
- 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 · March 9, 2005
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00155289
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying Legends INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporationFAA type of owner code 8 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N279DB links to the rest of the register
- Sud Aviation SA 318 5 registered
- Sud Aviation 13 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Turbomeca (Safran) ASTAZOU IIA 8 aircraft with this engine series · 546 hp
- Type certificate 7H1 · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Flying Legends INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Newcastle, DE 1 aircraft registered in this town
- Delaware 10,965 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Sud Aviation SA 318 17 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Sud Aviation SA 318 31 supplemental type certificates
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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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data