Airbus Helicopters EC225 LP
N553AC is an Airbus Helicopters EC225 LP, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2014. It has 26 seats. It is registered to Vertical Aviation No 1 LLC, an LLC in Miami, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 16, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters
- Model
- EC225 LP · all EC225 LPs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2913
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Turbomeca MAKILA 2A1 · 1746 hp
- Seats
- 26
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A70A93 (octal 51605223)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 2018
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- November 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · August 16, 2019
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01274094
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vertical Aviation No 1 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 830 Brickell Plz Ste 5000
Miami, FL 33131-2904
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N553AC, 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 Vertical Aviation No 1 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 2, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 16, 2019, 5 years after the 2014 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 2913 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N553AC 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]
1 NTSB record under N553AC: Accident on April 4, 1997 at Buffalo, NY: 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: Cessna 650 · operated under 091
A combination hydraulic fluid and fuel-fed fire which originated from electrical arcing, due to the lack of an adequate production standard from Cessna for the separation of flammable fluid lines and electrical lines. A factor was the lack of oversight from the FAA, which allowed Cessna to space the flammable fluid lines and electrical lines at too close a position.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC97LA068 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data