Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 1B
17 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 1B engine, rated at about 641 horsepower. The Aerospatiale AS350 is the model most often fitted with it (9 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 1978 and 2001.
The FAA records engines by code, usually at the level of a series ("O-320 series") rather than the exact variant; this page gathers every FAA code that reads as Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 1B. FAA spelling: ARRIEL 1B.
Fitted to model families
Aerospatiale AS350 · Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 · S N I A S AS-350 · Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130
Where they are owner's state
Kind of aircraft
When the aircraft were built by decade
What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 1B the component layer
The FAA has issued 30 airworthiness directives (orders that owners must comply with) that name this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 807 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 3 of them in the last ten years.
FAA orders 30 airworthiness directives · newest first
Failure reports 807 since · what operators and shops told the FAA
Parts most often reported as the reports name them
Latest reports
Sources: the FAA's type certificate data sheets, airworthiness directives, supplemental type certificates, special conditions and special airworthiness information bulletins (Dynamic Regulatory System), and the FAA's service difficulty reports. A failure report is what an operator or repair station chose to file; the counts show reporting as much as reliability, and larger and commercial fleets report more. How the systems are grouped.
Connections how this engine series links to the rest of the register
- Aerospatiale AS350 9 with this engine series
- Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 5 with this engine series
- S N I A S AS-350 2 with this engine series
- Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 1 with this engine series
- Delaware 3 of these aircraft
- North Carolina 2 of these aircraft
- Arizona 2 of these aircraft
- Wyoming 1 of these aircraft
- Vermont 1 of these aircraft
- U S Helicopters INC 2 of these aircraft
- Aircraft Trustee Services INC Trustee 2 of these aircraft
- Wings Air Helicopters LLC 1 of these aircraft
- Stefenelli Aviation N-Tr INC Trustee 1 of these aircraft
- FAA orders naming the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 1B 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 1B 807 reports since 1995
These connections as data: /graph/engine/turbomeca-safran-arriel-1b.json · about the eFlight graph.
Aircraft newest certificates first · 17
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Group | Owner and base | Certificate | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N352VH | Aerospatiale AS350BA |
Rotorcraft | Elt Holdings LLC Cottonwood, Arizona |
Standard | 2026-07-08 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N827NA | Eurocopter AS 350 B3 |
Rotorcraft | Roberts Aircraft LLC Cheyenne, Wyoming |
Standard | 2025-09-02 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N5805T | S N I A S AS-350B ECUREUIL |
Rotorcraft | Stefenelli Aviation N-Tr INC Trustee Attersee, |
Standard | 2025-07-03 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N114MX | Eurocopter AS 350 BA |
Rotorcraft | Air Resources Helicopters INC Salt Lake City, Utah |
Standard | 2024-09-30 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N352PA | Eurocopter AS 350 B3 |
Rotorcraft | Pathfinder Leasing LLC Anchorage, Alaska |
Standard | 2024-07-26 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N929WB | Aerospatiale AS350B |
Rotorcraft | Aircraft Trustee Services INC Trustee Dover, Delaware |
Standard | 2023-09-25 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N927LB | Aerospatiale AS350BA |
Rotorcraft | Elt Holdings LLC Cottonwood, Arizona |
Standard | 2023-08-21 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N963ES | Aerospatiale AS350B |
Rotorcraft | Fast Helicopters INC Trustee Wilmington, Delaware |
Standard | 2021-07-08 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N611TC | Aerospatiale AS350BA |
Rotorcraft | Aircraft Trustee Services INC Trustee Dover, Delaware |
Standard | 2020-04-16 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N234BU | Aerospatiale AS350BA |
Rotorcraft | Heli-Usa CORP Houston, Texas |
Standard | 2019-10-08 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N596WA | Eurocopter AS 350 BA |
Rotorcraft | Co-owned owner California |
Standard | 2017-11-15 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N888HV | Aerospatiale AS350B |
Rotorcraft | Sky West Aviation INC Trustee Albuquerque, New Mexico |
Standard | 2014-09-10 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N27WA | Aerospatiale AS350BA |
Rotorcraft | Wings Air Helicopters LLC West Harrison, New York |
Standard | 2014-06-13 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N111LN | Aerospatiale AS350BA |
Rotorcraft | C Lou Leasing LLC Mankato, Minnesota |
Restricted | 2012-11-19 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N11QD | Eurocopter EC 130 |
Rotorcraft | Mansfield Heliflight INC Milton, Vermont |
Standard | 2012-02-22 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N744HD | Eurocopter AS 350 BA |
Rotorcraft | U S Helicopters INC Marshville, North Carolina |
Standard | 2005-09-19 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N888TV | S N I A S AS-350B ECUREUIL |
Rotorcraft | U S Helicopters INC Marshville, North Carolina |
Standard | 1995-09-06 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database (the engine reference table and each aircraft's engine code), October 5, 2026. Horsepower and thrust are the FAA's figures for the series, not for a particular aircraft.