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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Aerospatiale AS 355F2
N712CA is an Aerospatiale AS 355F2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1987. 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 June 14, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 22, 2019.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Catalyst Aviation, LLC., so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 3:12 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerospatiale
- Model
- AS 355F2 · all AS 355F2s 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
- 5362
- 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 · Rolls-Royc 250-C20F · 420 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- A983AE (octal 52301656)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 14, 2019
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- 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 · October 22, 2019
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01298847
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
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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 N712CA 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
- Catalyst Aviation, LLC. · charter operator
- Rolls-Royce 250-C20F 2 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 3,017 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
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce 250-C20F 16 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skin, damaged · 2010-01-05
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skin, gouged · 2010-01-05
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skin, cracked · 2010-01-05
- Where N712CA is now · Last seen yesterday at 3:12 pm.
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The public federal record on N712CA, 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 June 14, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 22, 2019, 32 years after the 1987 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 5362 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N712CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B19 (serial 7244, cancelled July 16, 2013). 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]
1 NTSB record under N712CA: Accident on November 14, 2020 at Hammonton, NJ: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerospatiale AS355 · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to continue the takeoff with a perceived mechanical deficiency.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data