Aerospatiale SA315B
N57948 is an Aerospatiale SA315B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1982. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Dodson International Parts INC, a corporation in Rantoul, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 13, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying; other, dated March 5, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerospatiale
- Model
- SA315B · all SA315Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2628
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARTOUSTEIIIB · 858 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A772DD (octal 51671335)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 13, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 13, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial surveying; Other · March 5, 1992
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00131605
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dodson International Parts INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2155 Vermont Rd
Rantoul, KS 66079-9014
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N57948, 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 Dodson International Parts INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 13, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 5, 1992, 10 years after the 1982 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 2628 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N57948 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech C-45H (serial AF-478, cancelled September 23, 1974). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N57948: Accident on May 27, 2024 at Hildale, UT: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 19, 2012 at Helena, OK: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerospatiale SA315B · operated under 091
Maintenance personnel’s failure to properly secure the EGT thermocouples, which resulted in catastrophic overtemperature of the engine and a total loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24LA161 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerospatiale SA315B · operated under 133
The pilot's failure to properly secure the cyclic and to stop the main rotor system before exiting the helicopter, which resulted in the main rotor blades striking the tail rotor driveshaft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN13CA027 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data