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Engines · turboshaft · data as of October 5, 2026

Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2C

10 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2C engine, rated at about 779 horsepower. The Airbus Helicopters AS-365 is the model most often fitted with it (9 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 1987 and 2008.

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 2C. FAA spelling: ARRIEL 2C.

Fitted to model families

Airbus Helicopters AS-3659Airbus Helicopters EC 1551

Airbus Helicopters AS-365 · Airbus Helicopters EC 155

Where they are owner's state

Utah4Oregon2New Jersey2Ohio1Florida1

Kind of aircraft

Helicopters10 (100%)

When the aircraft were built by decade

01245219802199052000

What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2C the component layer

The FAA has issued 5 airworthiness directives (orders that owners must comply with) that name this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 14 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 5 of them in the last ten years.

FAA orders 5 airworthiness directives · newest first

2016-04-142016-04-12 · Engine accessory gearbox (AGB) · engine
2016-03-152016-03-02 · Torque conformation box (TCB) · engine
2015-09-012015-13-04 · Engine accessory gearbox (AGB) · engine
2003-03-072003-03-12 · Bleed Valve · engine
2002-09-262002-16-25 · Fuel pumps · engine

Failure reports 14 since · what operators and shops told the FAA

01234107408210211212114119121

Parts most often reported as the reports name them

Line5B-Nut1Bearing1Compressor1Door Frame1Gearbox1Lockwasher1Mast1Starter Gen1Window1

Latest reports

2021-02-03Mast: cracked
2019-01-07Door Frame: cracked
2014-03-04Bearing: making metal
2012-09-17Gearbox: making metal
2012-02-09Compressor: leaking

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

Fitted to
Where they are
Biggest operators

These connections as data: /graph/engine/turbomeca-safran-arriel-2c.json · about the eFlight graph.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 10

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N600LL Eurocopter
AS365N3
Rotorcraft Integrity Aircraft Title Holdings LLC
Portland, Oregon
Standard 2025-09-10 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N155RD Eurocopter
EC 155B
Rotorcraft Castro Be LLC
Miami, Florida
Standard 2023-03-10 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N178MT Eurocopter
AS365N3
Rotorcraft Tribeca Heli LLC
Princeton, New Jersey
Standard 2022-03-25 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N365JA Eurocopter
AS365N3
Rotorcraft Bank of Utah Trustee
Salt Lake City, Utah
Standard 2021-10-07 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N38MD Eurocopter
AS365N3
Rotorcraft Bank of Utah Trustee
Salt Lake City, Utah
Standard 2020-07-22 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N82MD Eurocopter
AS365N3
Rotorcraft Bank of Utah Trustee
Salt Lake City, Utah
Standard 2020-07-22 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N97MD Eurocopter
AS365N3
Rotorcraft Bank of Utah Trustee
Salt Lake City, Utah
Standard 2020-07-22 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N365RT Eurocopter
AS365N3
Rotorcraft Integrity Aircraft Title Holdings LLC
Portland, Oregon
Standard 2020-01-16 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N176MT Eurocopter
AS365N3
Rotorcraft Dr Heli Acquistion LLC
Princeton, New Jersey
Standard 2014-01-22 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N444Y Eurocopter
AS365N3
Rotorcraft Union Airspeed LLC
Cincinnati, Ohio
Standard 2012-05-21 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.