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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Aerospatiale SA 318C ALOUETTE AST
N318DH is an Aerospatiale SA 318C ALOUETTE AST, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1970. It has 5 seats. It is registered to International Air Services INC Owner Trustee, a corporation in Carson City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 15, 2014.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerospatiale
- Model
- SA 318C ALOUETTE AST
- Serial number
- 2163
- 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
- 1970
- Transponder code
- A364DC (octal 50662334)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 28, 2026
- 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 · July 15, 2014
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01150939
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- International Air Services INC Owner Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 123 W Nye Ln Ste 129
Carson City, NV 89706-0838
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N318DH links to the rest of the register
- Aerospatiale 178 aircraft on the register
- Turbomeca (Safran) ASTAZOU IIA 8 aircraft with this engine series · 546 hp
- Type certificate 7H1 · held by Airbus Helicopters
- International Air Services INC Owner Trustee 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Carson City, NV 959 aircraft registered in this town
- Carson City Airport · CXP
- Nevada 4,588 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N318DH.json.
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The public federal record on N318DH, 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 International Air Services INC Owner Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued January 28, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 15, 2014, 44 years after the 1970 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2163 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N318DH was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407 (serial 53823, cancelled June 25, 2008); Swearingen SA227-AT (serial AT469, cancelled July 30, 2001). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N318DH: Accident on February 9, 2001 at Beaver Island, MI: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Swearingen SA227-AT · operated under 135
The flightcrew not maintaining altitude/clearance during the circling instrument approach. Factors were the pilot in command initiating the flight without proper weather reporting facilities at the destination, the flightcrew not flying to an alternate destination, the flightcrew not following company and FAA procedures/directives, the lack of certification of the second pilot, the operator not following company and FAA procedures/directives, and the dark night and the low ceiling.
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
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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data