Eurocopter AS 350 B3
N551AM is an Eurocopter AS 350 B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2007. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Air Methods LLC, an LLC in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 27, 2013 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 19, 2007.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Air Methods LLC, so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen October 18 at 1:39 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter
- Model
- AS 350 B3 · all AS 350 B3s 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
- 4311
- 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 2B1 · 747 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A7032E (octal 51601456)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 27, 2013
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 16, 2024
- 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 · October 19, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00376519
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Methods 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
- 5500 S Quebec St Ste 300
Greenwood Village, CO 80111-1914
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.
Connections how N551AM links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 891 registered
- Eurocopter 666 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Air Methods LLC · charter operator
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2B1 271 aircraft with this engine series · 747 hp
- Type certificate H9EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Air Methods LLC 341 aircraft in the fleet
- Greenwood Village, CO 439 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,454 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 155 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 2B1 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2B1 758 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Unknown, odor · 2012-09-13
- Report filed on this aircraft: Wire, shorted · 2012-09-07
- Report filed on this aircraft: Horn, cracked · 2012-07-23
- Where N551AM is now · Last seen October 18 at 1:39 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N551AM.json.
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The public federal record on N551AM, 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 Air Methods LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 27, 2013, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 19, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4311 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N551AM 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 N551AM. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data