American Eurocopter Corp AS350B3
N3951A is an American Eurocopter Corp AS350B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2010. It has 7 seats. It is registered to US Department Of Homeland Security, a government body in Washington, District of Columbia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 2010 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 2, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Eurocopter Corp
- Model
- AS350B3 · all AS350B3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4993
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIEL 2B1 · 747 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A497D8 (octal 51113730)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 20, 2010
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 2, 2010
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01049874
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- US Department Of Homeland Security
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW Rm 6.4A
Washington, DC 20229-0002 - Co-owners
- US Customs & Border Protection / Office Of Air & Marine
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3951A, 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 US Department Of Homeland Security, a government body, certificate issued December 20, 2010, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 2, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4993 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3951A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Boeing 707-123B (serial 17647, cancelled March 14, 1984); Douglas DC3C (serial 33076, cancelled July 15, 1971). 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 N3951A: Accident on June 25, 2025 at San Luis, AZ: 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: American Eurocopter CORP AS350B3 · operated under PUBU
The pilot receiving instruction’s failure to properly recover the helicopter during an autorotative landing and the instructor pilot’s failure to intervene, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR25LA189 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