Sud Aviation SA316B ALOUETTE III
N8655 is a Sud Aviation SA316B ALOUETTE III, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1970. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Laupahoehoe, Hawaii. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 16, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sud Aviation
- Model
- SA316B ALOUETTE III
- Serial number
- 1728
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARTOUSTEIIIB · 858 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 77 mph
- Transponder code
- ABE471 (octal 52762161)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 15, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 16, 1972
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00042381
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rosenburg Adrian
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 471
Laupahoehoe, HI 96764-0471
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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 N8655, 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 Rosenburg Adrian, an individual, certificate issued September 15, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 16, 1972, consistent with the 1970 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1728 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8655 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 N8655: Accident on March 13, 1984 at Story, WY: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerospatiale SA-316B · operated under 135
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- 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
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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