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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Aerospatiale SA315B
N55963 is an Aerospatiale SA315B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1975. It has 5 seats. It is registered to International Air Services INC Trustee, a corporation in Carson City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying, dated June 24, 1977.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerospatiale
- Model
- SA315B · all SA315Bs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. The Lama: an open steel-tube frame and lattice tail boom. This is how the Aerospatiale SA315 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
- 2428
- 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 ARTOUSTEIIIB · 858 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1975
- Transponder code
- A72420 (octal 51622040)
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 4, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 27, 2026
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Aerial surveyingFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 24, 1977
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00082816
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- International Air Services INC Trustee
- 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
- 123 W Nye Ln Ste 129
Carson City, NV 89706-0838
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N55963 links to the rest of the register
- Aerospatiale SA315 22 registered
- Aerospatiale 178 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARTOUSTEIIIB 10 aircraft with this engine series · 858 hp
- Type certificate H1IN · held by Airbus Helicopters
- International Air Services INC Trustee 611 aircraft in the fleet
- Carson City, NV 959 aircraft registered in this town
- Carson City Airport · CXP
- Nevada 4,588 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Aerospatiale SA315 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Aerospatiale SA315 28 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Aerospatiale SA315 62 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N55963, 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 International Air Services INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued June 4, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for aerial surveying, dated June 24, 1977, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2428 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N55963 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 N55963. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data