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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Leonardo S P A AW189
N326LS is a Leonardo S P A AW189, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2016. It has 21 seats. It is registered to Bristow LLC, an LLC in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated July 23, 2018.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Bristow LLC, so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 9:18 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Leonardo S P A
- Model
- AW189
- Serial number
- 49028
- 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 · Ge CT7 SERIES · 1560 hp
- Seats
- 21
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A385A5 (octal 50702645)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 11, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 23, 2018
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01279479
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bristow LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 600 Airport Blvd
Lake Charles, LA 70607-0610
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 N326LS links to the rest of the register
- Leonardo S P A 8 aircraft on the register
- Bristow LLC · charter operator
- General Electric CT7 series 69 aircraft with this engine series · 1600 hp
- Type certificate R00004RD · held by Leonardo S P A
- Bristow LLC 59 aircraft in the fleet
- Lake Charles, LA 163 aircraft registered in this town
- Chennault International · CWF
- Lake Charles Regional · LCH
- Louisiana 3,735 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the General Electric CT7 series 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the General Electric CT7 series 253 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Longeron, cracked · 2024-12-09
- Where N326LS is now · Last seen October 17 at 9:18 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N326LS.json.
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The public federal record on N326LS, 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 Bristow LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 11, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated July 23, 2018, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 49028 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N326LS 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 N326LS. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data