Airbus Helicopters Inc AS350B3
N342R is an Airbus Helicopters Inc AS350B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2021. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Department Of Homeland Security, a government body in Washington, District of Columbia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 13, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Inc
- Model
- AS350B3 · all AS350B3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 8993
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Safran ARRIEL 2D · 952 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A3C633 (octal 50743063)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 11, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 11, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 13, 2021
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01341738
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Department Of Homeland Security
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1300 Pennsylvania Ave W 6 4A
Washington, DC 20229-0002
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N342R, 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 Department Of Homeland Security, a government body, certificate issued February 11, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 13, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8993 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N342R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech D35 (serial D-3422, cancelled June 13, 2011). 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 N342R: Accident on March 16, 2009 at Taos, NM: no 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: Beech D35 · operated under 091
The failure of the student pilot to complete the before landing checklist. Contributing to the accident was his failure to lower the landing gear before landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN09CA223 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data