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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Aerospatiale AS355F2 ECUREUIL
N642AB is an Aerospatiale AS355F2 ECUREUIL, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1991. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Catalyst Aviation LLC, an LLC in Hammonton, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 3, 1994.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerospatiale
- Model
- AS355F2 ECUREUIL · all AS355F2 ECUREUILs 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 AS-355 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
- 5498
- 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, 2 motors · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A86CAB (octal 52066253)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 21, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 21, 2026
- 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 · August 3, 1994
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00895042
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Catalyst Aviation 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
- 5 Academy Dr
Hammonton, NJ 08037-3032
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N642AB links to the rest of the register
- Aerospatiale AS-355 23 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
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20 series 530 aircraft with this engine series · 420 hp
- Type certificate H11EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Catalyst Aviation LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Hammonton, NJ 13 aircraft registered in this town
- Hammonton Municipal · N81
- New Jersey 3,019 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Aerospatiale AS-355 115 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Aerospatiale AS-355 203 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Aerospatiale AS-355 304 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20 series 747 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N642AB, 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 Catalyst Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 21, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 3, 1994, 3 years after the 1991 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 5498 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N642AB 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 N642AB. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data