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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Agusta Spa AW139
N305FD is an Agusta Spa AW139, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2008. 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 August 20, 2012 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 25, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Agusta Spa
- Model
- AW139 · all AW139s 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 Agusta Spa AW139 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
- 41009
- 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 · P&W Canada PT6C-67C · 1679 hp
- Seats
- 17
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A33266 (octal 50631146)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 20, 2012
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- 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 · June 25, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00465179
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- City of Los Angeles
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- C/O Air Operations Section
16617 Arminta St
Van Nuys, CA 91406-1611 - Co-owners
- Los Angeles Fire Department
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 N305FD links to the rest of the register
- Agusta Spa AW139 14 registered
- Agusta Spa 160 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6C-67C 125 aircraft with this engine series · 1679 hp
- Type certificate R00002RD · held by Leonardo S P A
- City Of Los Angeles 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Van Nuys, CA 163 aircraft registered in this town
- Van Nuys Airport · VNY
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Agusta Spa AW139 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Agusta Spa AW139 23 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Agusta Spa AW139 45 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6C-67C 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6C-67C 130 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fuel Tank, leaking · 2017-11-10
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fuel Tank, leaking · 2017-11-10
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bearing, dislodged · 2016-12-14
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The public federal record on N305FD, 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 August 20, 2012, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated June 25, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 41009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N305FD 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 N305FD: Accident on June 23, 2004 at Lancaster, CA: minor injuries, substantial 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: Bell 206B · operated under PUBU
The pilot's misjudged autorotative flare and the flight instructor's delayed remedial action and inadequate supervision of the flight.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data