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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Aerospatiale AS350 B2 ECUREUIL
N916AM is an Aerospatiale AS350 B2 ECUREUIL, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1990. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Elt Holdings LLC, an LLC in Cottonwood, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 5, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 15, 1990.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Global Air Support, LLC., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen October 10 at 10:50 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerospatiale
- Model
- AS350 B2 ECUREUIL · all AS350 B2 ECUREUILs 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 Aerospatiale AS350 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
- 2404
- 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 · Turbomeca ARRIEL 1SER · 681 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- ACAD01 (octal 53126401)
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 5, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 5, 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 · November 15, 1990
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00864262
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elt Holdings 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
- 1281 S Meadow Ln
Cottonwood, AZ 86326-5677
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N916AM links to the rest of the register
- Aerospatiale AS350 65 registered
- Aerospatiale 178 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Global Air Support, LLC. · charter operator
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 1 series 132 aircraft with this engine series · 681 hp
- Type certificate H9EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Elt Holdings LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Cottonwood, AZ 31 aircraft registered in this town
- Cottonwood Airport · P52
- Arizona 8,426 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Aerospatiale AS350 4,985 reports since 1995
- Where N916AM is now · Last seen October 10 at 10:50 am.
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The public federal record on N916AM, 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 Elt Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 5, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 15, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2404 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N916AM 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 N916AM: Accident on May 3, 2011 at Camden, SC: 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: Aerospatiale AS350B2 · operated under 091
The instructor pilot did not maintain adequate helicopter control while maneuvering, which resulted in a hard landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data