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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Aerospatiale AS350BA
N596MS is an Aerospatiale AS350BA, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1988. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Ns Air Leasing LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 25, 1996.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerospatiale
- Model
- AS350BA · all AS350BAs 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 Aerospatiale AS350 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
- 1884
- 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 1SER · 681 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1988
- Transponder code
- A7B4D5 (octal 51732325)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 29, 2025
- 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 · April 25, 1996
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00208688
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ns Air Leasing 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
- 3422 Old Capitol Trl Pmb 1530
Wilmington, DE 19808-6124
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N596MS links to the rest of the register
- Aerospatiale AS350 65 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) ARRIEL 1 series 132 aircraft with this engine series · 681 hp
- Type certificate H9EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Ns Air Leasing LLC 32 aircraft in the fleet
- Wilmington, DE 7,376 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,959 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Aerospatiale AS350 4,985 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N596MS, 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 Ns Air Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 29, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 25, 1996, 8 years after the 1988 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 1884 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N596MS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 747-400 (serial 25645, cancelled August 8, 2011). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N596MS. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data