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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Leonardo S P A AW189
N838PH is a Leonardo S P A AW189, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 21 seats. It is registered to Phi Aviation LLC, an LLC in Lafayette, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Leonardo S P A
- Model
- AW189
- Serial number
- 89038
- 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
- Seats
- 21
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AB775F (octal 52673537)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 6, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 6, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01551415
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Phi 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
- 2001 SE Evangeline Thruway
Lafayette, LA 70508
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N838PH links to the rest of the register
- Leonardo S P A 8 aircraft on the register
- Type certificate R00004RD · held by Leonardo S P A
- Phi Aviation LLC 56 aircraft in the fleet
- Lafayette, LA 269 aircraft registered in this town
- Lafayette Rgnl/Paul Fournet Field · LFT
- Louisiana 3,733 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N838PH, 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 Phi Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 6, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. 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 89038 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N838PH 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 N838PH. 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 October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data