Eurocopter AS 350 B3
N970AE is an Eurocopter AS 350 B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1999. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Phi Health LLC, an LLC in Tempe, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2016 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 30, 2004.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of PHI Health,LLC, so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 2:33 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter
- Model
- AS 350 B3 · all AS 350 B3s 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
- 3235
- 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 SERIES · 985 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- AD83AA (octal 53301652)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 28, 2016
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 27, 2026
- 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 · April 30, 2004
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00745922
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Phi Health 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
- 1033 W Roosevelt Way Ste 500
Tempe, AZ 85288-0906
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 N970AE links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 893 registered
- Eurocopter 668 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- PHI Health,LLC · charter operator
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL series 31 aircraft with this engine series · 985 hp
- Type certificate H9EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Phi Health LLC 108 aircraft in the fleet
- Tempe, AZ 232 aircraft registered in this town
- Arizona 8,430 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
- Report filed on this aircraft: Igniter, worn · 2003-08-01
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skid Shoe, failed · 2002-12-16
- Report filed on this aircraft: Radio, malfunctioned · 2002-12-16
- Where N970AE is now · Last seen Thursday at 2:33 am.
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The public federal record on N970AE, 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 Phi Health LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 28, 2016, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 30, 2004, 5 years after the 1999 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 3235 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N970AE 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 N970AE: Accident on January 20, 2004 at Mesa, AZ: 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: Eurocopter AS350 B3 · operated under 091
the pilot's excessive flare and mistimed collective application during a practice autorotation, which resulted in a loss of main rotor rpm and a subsequent hard landing. Also causal, was the flight instructor's delayed remedial action and inadequate supervision of the flight. The soft terrain was a factor.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data