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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Agusta Aerospace Corp AW119 MKII
N802SM is an Agusta Aerospace Corp AW119 MKII, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 8 seats. It is registered to Bristow LLC, an LLC in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 11, 2008 and expires on December 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Bristow LLC, so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen October 29 at 3:21 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Agusta Aerospace Corp
- Model
- AW119 MKII · all AW119 MKIIs 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. This is how the Agusta Aerospace Corp AW119 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
- 14711
- 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
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AAEAE7 (octal 52565347)
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 11, 2008
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01001783
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bristow 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
- 600 Airport Blvd
Lake Charles, LA 70607-0610
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.
Connections how N802SM links to the rest of the register
- Agusta Aerospace Corp AW119 6 registered
- Agusta Aerospace Corp 27 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate H7EU · held by Leonardo S P A
- Bristow LLC · charter operator
- Bristow LLC 59 aircraft in the fleet
- Lake Charles, LA 163 aircraft registered in this town
- Chennault International · CWF
- Lake Charles Regional · LCH
- Louisiana 3,733 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Agusta Aerospace Corp AW119 14 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Agusta Aerospace Corp AW119 71 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Agusta Aerospace Corp AW119 35 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bearing, worn · 1996-12-09
- Where N802SM is now · Last seen October 29 at 3:21 pm.
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The public federal record on N802SM, 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 Bristow LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 11, 2008, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 14711 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N802SM 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 N802SM: Accident on February 20, 2015 at Gulf of Mexico: 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: Agusta Aerospace CORP AW119 MKII · operated under 135
The fracture of the tail rotor pitch change link due to excessive bearing rotational friction, which resulted from the bearings being installed in exceedance of the maximum allowable torque during the last overhaul of the pitch change link.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 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 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data