Eurocopter AS 350 B3
N846BP is an Eurocopter AS 350 B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2002. It has 6 seats. It is registered to US Department Of Homeland Security, a government body in Washington, District of Columbia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2002 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 29, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter
- Model
- AS 350 B3 · all AS 350 B3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 3542
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIUS 2B · 515 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- AB964A (octal 52713112)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 20, 2002
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 29, 2002
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00273956
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- US Department Of Homeland Security
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW Rm 6.4A
Washington, DC 20229-0002 - Co-owners
- US Customs & Border Protection / Office Of Air & Marine
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N846BP, 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 US Department Of Homeland Security, a government body, certificate issued September 20, 2002, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 29, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3542 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N846BP 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 N846BP: Accident on November 25, 2003 at Yuma, AZ: 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: Eurocopter France AS 350 B3 · operated under PUBU
The malfunction of the rotor drive system due to improper maintenance, which resulted in the uncoupling of the drive shaft during takeoff-initial climb. A factor associated with the accident is the undertorqued drive system bolts.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data