Airbus Helicopters Inc AS350B3
N338SD is an Airbus Helicopters Inc AS350B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Erie County Sheriffs Office, a government body in Buffalo, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 16, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 16, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Inc
- Model
- AS350B3 · all AS350B3s 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. Composite rotor blades and a composite Starflex rotor head. This is how the Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 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
- 9745
- 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 · Safran ARRIEL 2D · 952 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A3B51B (octal 50732433)
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 16, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 12, 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 · October 16, 2025
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01513789
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Erie County Sheriffs Office
- 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
- 10 Delaware Ave
Buffalo, NY 14202-3913
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N338SD links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 891 registered
- Airbus Helicopters Inc 378 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Safran ARRIEL 2D 314 aircraft with this engine series · 952 hp
- Type certificate H9EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Erie County Sheriffs Office 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Buffalo, NY 66 aircraft registered in this town
- Buffalo Niagara International · BUF
- Buffalo Airfield · 9G0
- Buffalo-Lancaster Regional · BQR
- Clarence Aerodrome · D51
- New York 6,669 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 155 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 1,007 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 685 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Safran ARRIEL 2D 8 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N338SD, 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 Erie County Sheriffs Office, a government body, certificate issued February 16, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 16, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9745 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N338SD 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 N338SD. 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 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