Eurocopter France AS350B2
N72LC is an Eurocopter France AS350B2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1992. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Lee County Sheriffs Office, a government body in Fort Myers, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 4, 2006 and expires on March 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 22, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter France
- Model
- AS350B2 · all AS350B2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2628
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIEL 1D1 · 712 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A9A230 (octal 52321060)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 4, 2006
- Expires
- March 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 22, 2007
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00514182
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lee County Sheriffs Office
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 14750 Six Mile Cypress Pkwy
Fort Myers, FL 33912
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N72LC, 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 Lee County Sheriffs Office, a government body, certificate issued April 4, 2006, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 22, 2007, 15 years after the 1992 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 2628 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N72LC was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hughes OH-6A (serial 68-17184, cancelled September 25, 2002); Bell TH-13T (serial 3588, cancelled date not given). 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]
2 NTSB records under N72LC: Accident on November 18, 2006 at Ft. Myers, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on December 20, 1999 at Fort Myers, FL: serious 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Eurocopter AS 350 BA · operated under PUBU
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during engine start. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's improper advancement of the fuel control lever.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA07TA017 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes OH-6A · operated under 091
improper maintenance inspection of the helicopter by unknown maintenance personnel, resulting in a worn control rod bearing being continued in service, and subsequent separation, resulting in an in-flight loss of control and a crash.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA00GA057 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data