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N856BP

Eurocopter AS 350 B3

N856BP 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 February 27, 2003 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 4, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Eurocopter
Model
AS 350 B3 · all AS 350 B3s and related versions
Serial number
3617
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIUS 2B · 515 hp
Seats
6
Year built
2002
Transponder code
ABBDC9 (octal 52736711)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 27, 2003
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · December 4, 2002
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00011979

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N856BP, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to US Department Of Homeland Security, a government body, certificate issued February 27, 2003, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated December 4, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3617 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N856BP according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N856BP. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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