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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Keystone Helicopter Corp S-76C
N40WH is a Keystone Helicopter Corp S-76C, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2009. It has 19 seats. It is registered to Gm Leasing CO LLC, an LLC in Broussard, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 28, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 5, 2019.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Westwind Helicopters, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 7:59 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Keystone Helicopter Corp
- Model
- S-76C · all S-76Cs 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. This is how the Keystone Helicopter Corp S-76 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
- 760756
- 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 · Turbomeca ARRIEL 2S2 · 817 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 19
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A4AC44 (octal 51126104)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 28, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 19, 2025
- 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 · August 5, 2019
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01020363
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gm Leasing CO 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
- 1318 Smede Highway
Broussard, LA 70518
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
Connections how N40WH links to the rest of the register
- Keystone Helicopter Corp S-76 13 registered
- Keystone Helicopter Corp 14 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Westwind Helicopters, Inc. · charter operator
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2S2 57 aircraft with this engine series · 817 hp
- Type certificate H1NE · held by Sikorsky Aircraft CORP
- Gm Leasing CO LLC 36 aircraft in the fleet
- Broussard, LA 141 aircraft registered in this town
- Louisiana 3,729 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2S2 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2S2 52 reports since 1995
- Where N40WH is now · Last seen yesterday at 7:59 am.
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The public federal record on N40WH, 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 Gm Leasing CO LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 28, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 5, 2019, 10 years after the 2009 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 760756 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40WH was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hencken William PIETENPOL AIR CAMPER (serial 40, cancelled March 20, 2019); Rockwell International Corp. NA-265-40 (serial 282-80, cancelled October 10, 1980). 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 N40WH: Accident on September 21, 2017 at Franklin, PA: 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: Hencken William PIETENPOL AIR CAMPER · operated under 091
The failure of the weld that connects the left main landing gear and the axle during the takeoff roll.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data