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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Aerospatiale GAZELLE SA341F2
N916D is an Aerospatiale GAZELLE SA341F2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1976. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Advancing Blades Industries LLC, an LLC in Jacksonville, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 25, 2019.
Where is it now Last seen October 13 at 4:59 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerospatiale
- Model
- GAZELLE SA341F2 · all GAZELLE SA341F2s 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. The Gazelle: composite rotor blades and a shrouded tail rotor. This is how the Aerospatiale GAZELLE SA341F2 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
- 1448
- 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 ASTAZOU SER · 1050 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1976
- Transponder code
- ACAD40 (octal 53126500)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 13, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 25, 2019
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01237788
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Advancing Blades Industries 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
- 5437 Cisco Dr W
Jacksonville, FL 32219
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N916D links to the rest of the register
- Aerospatiale GAZELLE SA341F2 7 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
- Turbomeca (Safran) ASTAZOU series 17 aircraft with this engine series · 1050 hp
- Advancing Blades Industries LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Jacksonville, FL 507 aircraft registered in this town
- Cecil Airport · VQQ
- Jacksonville Executive AT Craig · CRG
- Jacksonville International · JAX
- Herlong Recreational Airport · HEG
- Florida 21,711 aircraft registered
- Where N916D is now · Last seen October 13 at 4:59 pm.
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The public federal record on N916D, 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 Advancing Blades Industries LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 13, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 25, 2019, 43 years after the 1976 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1448 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N916D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108-2 (serial 108-2916, cancelled February 17, 2016). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N916D. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data