Eurocopter AS 350 B3
N3972A is an Eurocopter AS 350 B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2010. It has 6 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 August 26, 2011 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 15, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter
- Model
- AS 350 B3 · all AS 350 B3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 7082
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIEL 2B1 · 747 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A49F69 (octal 51117551)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2011
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 15, 2011
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01065121
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
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3972A, 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 August 26, 2011, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 15, 2011, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7082 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3972A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Wormley Thomas E WIZARD J3 (serial J3-40-2865, cancelled August 1, 1985); North American NAVION L-17C (serial NAV41085, cancelled July 13, 1970). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3972A. 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 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data