{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2011-05-05","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-10-24","city":"WASHINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"60056","engine_horsepower":747,"engine_maker":"TURBOMECA","engine_model":"ARRIEL 2B1","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-24","maker":"American Eurocopter Corp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AMERICAN EUROCOPTER CORP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1145004","mode_s_code":"51121503","mode_s_hex":"A4A343","model":"AS350B3","n_number":"N3983A","name":"US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"DURHAM","damage":"SUBS","date":"1982-10-31","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"NYC83FNE01","probable_cause":"","registration":"N3983A","state":"CT","summary":"Accident on October 31, 1982 at Durham, CT: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"US CUSTOMS & BORDER PROTECTION / OFFICE OF AIR & MARINE","plain_english":"N3983A is an American Eurocopter Corp AS350B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2011. It has 7 seats. It is registered to US Department Of Homeland Security, a government body in Washington, District of Columbia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2011 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 5, 2011.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to US Department Of Homeland Security, a government body, certificate issued October 24, 2011, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated May 5, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7101 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N3983A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A-3 (serial FT-670, cancelled December 8, 1983). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N3983A: Accident on October 31, 1982 at Durham, CT: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":7,"serial_number":"7101","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1300 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW RM 6.4A","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01065125","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3983A","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2011,"zip":"202290002"}