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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Aerospatiale SA341G GAZELLE
N505NM is an Aerospatiale SA341G GAZELLE, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1977. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Classic Rotors Museum, a corporation in Ramona, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2003 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 22, 1977.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerospatiale
- Model
- SA341G GAZELLE · all SA341G GAZELLEs 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. The Gazelle: composite rotor blades and a shrouded tail rotor. This is how the Aerospatiale SA341 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
- 1408
- 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 ASTAZOU 111A · 592 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 110 mph
- Transponder code
- A64DBB (octal 51446673)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 12, 2003
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 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 · December 22, 1977
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00111115
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Classic Rotors Museum
- 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
- 2690 Montecito Rd
Ramona, CA 92065-1611
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N505NM links to the rest of the register
- Aerospatiale SA341 21 registered
- Aerospatiale 178 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) ASTAZOU 111A 19 aircraft with this engine series · 592 hp
- Type certificate H6EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Classic Rotors Museum 26 aircraft in the fleet
- Ramona, CA 101 aircraft registered in this town
- Ramona Airport · RNM
- California 28,112 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N505NM, 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 Classic Rotors Museum, a corporation, certificate issued June 12, 2003, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 22, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1408 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N505NM 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 N505NM. 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 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 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 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data