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A Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125, the same model family as N601TA
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N601TA

Eurocopter AS 350 B3

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesWyoming

N601TA is an Eurocopter AS 350 B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2009. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Trans Aero LLC, an LLC in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 14, 2022.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Trans Aero LLC, so it can be flown for hire.

Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 4:56 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Eurocopter
Model
AS 350 B3 · all AS 350 B3s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A 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
4876
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 · Safran ARRIEL 2B1 · 747 hp
Seats
6
Year built
2009
Transponder code
A7CCA0 (octal 51746240)

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 9, 2025
Expires
September 30, 2032
Last FAA action
September 9, 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 · September 14, 2022
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01362135

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Trans Aero 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
4101 Evans Ave
Cheyenne, WY 82001-1469
Charter N601TA with Trans Aero LLC:

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

2013-02-08Beech 65-A90 · Sale reported, canceled

Connections how N601TA links to the rest of the register

Design
Flies for
Engine
  • Safran ARRIEL 2B1 11 aircraft with this engine series · 747 hp
  • Type certificate H9EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
Owner
Place
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N601TA.json.

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N601TA, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Trans Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 9, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 14, 2022, 13 years after the 2009 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4876 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N601TA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 65-A90 (serial LJ-120, cancelled February 8, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N601TA: Accident on October 12, 1987 at Ft Lauderdale, FL: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

MIA88LA010Accident on October 12, 1987 at Ft Lauderdale, FL: serious injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: LJ120

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech A-90 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data