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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Sud Aviation SA 318C
N318PJ is a Sud Aviation SA 318C, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1968. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sutton, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 18, 2022 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 20, 2023.
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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
- 2016
- 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
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1968
- Transponder code
- A365D7 (octal 50662727)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 18, 2022
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 20, 2023
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00205389
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Talcott James L
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 42
Sutton, AK 99674-0042
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N318PJ 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
- Sutton, AK 59 aircraft registered in this town
- Alaska 9,143 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 N318PJ, 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 Talcott James L, an individual, certificate issued February 18, 2022, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 20, 2023, 55 years after the 1968 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 2016 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N318PJ 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 N318PJ. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data