American Eurocopter Llc AS350B3
N617GC is an American Eurocopter Llc AS350B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2009. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Granite Coast Mapping, a corporation in Coronado, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 31, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Eurocopter Llc
- Model
- AS350B3 · all AS350B3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4676
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIEL 2B1 · 747 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A80958 (octal 52004530)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 31, 2009
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01025867
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Granite Coast Mapping
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 180256
Coronado, CA 92178-0256
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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 N617GC, 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 Granite Coast Mapping, a corporation, certificate issued September 14, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 31, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4676 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N617GC 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 N617GC: Accident on December 16, 2024 at Potrero, CA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Eurocopter LLC AS350B3 · operated under PUBU
On December 16, 2024, about 1030 Pacific standard time, an Airbus A350 B3 helicopter, N617GC, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Potrero, California. The pilot was fatally injured. The helicopter was operated as a public use flight. According to a representative of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the helicopter was scheduled for a routine aerial support mission. Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data from the Federal Aviation Administration showed that the helicopter departed Brown Field Municipal Airport, San Diego, California about 0856 o…
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- 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