Airbus Helicopters Inc AS350B3
N883SD is an Airbus Helicopters Inc AS350B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2024. It has 7 seats. It is registered to City of San Diego, a government body in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 19, 2024.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Inc
- Model
- AS350B3 · all AS350B3s 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. Composite rotor blades and a composite Starflex rotor head. This is how the Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 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
- 9573
- 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 · Safran ARRIEL 2D · 952 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- AC2A8E (octal 53025216)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 19, 2024
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01448895
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- City of San Diego
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4141 Kearny Villa Rd
San Diego, CA 92123-1705 - Co-owners
- Police Air Support Unit
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N883SD links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 893 registered
- Airbus Helicopters Inc 379 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Safran ARRIEL 2D 314 aircraft with this engine series · 952 hp
- Type certificate H9EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- City Of San Diego 6 aircraft in the fleet
- San Diego, CA 685 aircraft registered in this town
- Brown Field Municipal · SDM
- Montgomery-Gibbs Executive · MYF
- San Diego International · SAN
- California 27,673 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 156 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 1,007 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 685 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Safran ARRIEL 2D 8 airworthiness directives
- Where N883SD is now · Last seen today at 3:05 pm.
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The public federal record on N883SD, 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 City of San Diego, a government body, certificate issued February 28, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 19, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9573 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N883SD 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 N883SD. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data