Agustawestland Philadelphia AW139
N304FD is an Agustawestland Philadelphia AW139, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2017. It has 17 seats. It is registered to City Of Los Angeles, a government body in Van Nuys, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 14, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 18, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Agustawestland Philadelphia
- Model
- AW139 · all AW139s and related versions
- Serial number
- 41528
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6C-67C · 1679 hp
- Seats
- 17
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A32EAF (octal 50627257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 14, 2017
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · April 18, 2017
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01239804
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- City Of Los Angeles
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 16617 Arminta St
Van Nuys, CA 91406-1611 - Co-owners
- Air Operations
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N304FD, 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 City Of Los Angeles, a government body, certificate issued July 14, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated April 18, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 41528 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N304FD 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 N304FD: Accident on September 2, 2017 at Tujunga, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Leonardo AW139 · operated under PUBU
A yaw excursion and uncontrolled descent due to loss of tail rotor effectiveness during aerial firefighting operations resulting in an impact with trees. A contributing factor was the pilot’s failure to maintain sufficient airspeed, coupled with a quartering tailwind during aerial firefighting operations. An additional factor was the operator’s lack of guidance to the hazards associated with aerial firefighting operations near and around smoke columns.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC17LA051 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
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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