Eurocopter AS 350 B3E
N493WA is an Eurocopter AS 350 B3E, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2012. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Vertol Systems CO INC, a corporation in Destin, Florida. The FAA lists the registration as "first notice for registration renewal" (certificate issued April 3, 2014). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 2, 2013.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter
- Model
- AS 350 B3E · all AS 350 B3Es 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
- 7534
- 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 · Turbomeca ARRIEL 2D · 802 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A61D32 (octal 51416462)
Registration
- Status
- First notice for registration renewalFAA registration status code 25 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 3, 2014
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- 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 · August 2, 2013
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01126077
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vertol Systems CO INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 727
Destin, FL 32540-0727
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N493WA links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 893 registered
- Eurocopter 668 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2D 232 aircraft with this engine series · 802 hp
- Type certificate H9EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Vertol Systems CO INC 26 aircraft in the fleet
- Destin, FL 109 aircraft registered in this town
- Destin Executive · DTS
- Florida 21,702 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 156 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 Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2D 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2D 138 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N493WA.json.
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The public federal record on N493WA, 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.
Registration status is "First notice for registration renewal". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 2, 2013, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7534 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N493WA 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 N493WA. 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 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