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Engines · turboshaft · data as of October 12, 2026

Turbomeca (Safran) MAKILA 1A1

8 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Turbomeca (Safran) MAKILA 1A1 engine, rated at about 1819 horsepower. The Airbus Helicopters AS332 is the model most often fitted with it (5 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 1988 and 2006.

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) MAKILA 1A1. FAA spelling: MAKILA 1A1.

Fitted to model families

Airbus Helicopters AS3325Aerospatiale AS332L13
Model families, as a table
aircraft
Airbus Helicopters AS3325
Aerospatiale AS332L13

Airbus Helicopters AS332 · Aerospatiale AS332L1

Where they are owner's state

By state, as a table
aircraft
Wyoming5
Utah2
California1

Kind of aircraft

By kind, as a table
aircraftshare
Helicopters8100%

When the aircraft were built by decade

By decade built, as a table
aircraft
19801
19905
20002

What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the Turbomeca (Safran) MAKILA 1A1 the component layer

The FAA has issued 9 airworthiness directives (orders that owners must comply with) that name this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 57 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 2 of them in the last ten years.

FAA orders 9 airworthiness directives · newest first

2013-03-212013-05-01 · N2 sensor harnesses · engine
2011-12-072011-24-08 · Backup Control Mode · engine
2010-07-132010-12-02 · Proportional Pressure Reducing Valve (PPRV) · engine
2008-05-212008-08-16 · Digital electronic control units (DECUs) · engine
2007-03-192007-03-20 · LPG board of the ECU · engine
2006-05-052006-07-20 · Software version of the digital electronic control · engine

All orders naming the Turbomeca (Safran) MAKILA 1A1

Failure reports 57 since · what operators and shops told the FAA

0247996010611125
Failure reports by year, as a table
reports
963
972
983
992
009
018
023
034
044
053
063
072
081
091
102
111
154
191
251

Parts most often reported as the reports name them

Parts most reported, as a table
reports
Transmission5
Engine3
Fcu3
Adjuster2
Bearing2
Blade2
Bracket2
Firewall2
Fuel Control2
Harness2

Latest reports

2025-06-09Compressor: stalled
2019-09-12Swashplate: damaged
2015-04-17Fcu: faulty
2015-03-03Fcu: failed
2015-02-18Firewall: cracked

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

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/engine/turbomeca-safran-makila-1a1.json.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 8

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N332HC Aerospatiale
AS332L1
Rotorcraft Bank of Utah Trustee
Salt Lake City, Utah
Standard 2026-04-02 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N332A Eurocopter
AS332L1
Rotorcraft Valiair Limited CO Trustee
Casper, Wyoming
Standard 2026-03-30 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N950JE Airbus Helicopters
AS332L1
Rotorcraft County of Los Angeles Sheriffs Dept
Long Beach, California
Standard 2025-03-18 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N332R Airbus Helicopters
AS332L1
Rotorcraft Valiair Lc Trustee
Casper, Wyoming
Standard 2024-12-23 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N332N Eurocopter France
AS332L1
Rotorcraft Valiair Limited Company Trustee
Casper, Wyoming
Standard 2024-03-11 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N368EV Aerospatiale
AS332L1
Rotorcraft Valiair Limited Company Trustee
Casper, Wyoming
Standard 2024-03-11 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N332X Airbus Helicopters
AS332L1
Rotorcraft Valiair LTD CO Trustee
Casper, Wyoming
Experimental 2023-06-02 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N406RG Aerospatiale
AS332L1
Rotorcraft Tvpx Aircraft Solutions INC Trustee
North Salt Lake, Utah
Standard 2021-02-24 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 12, 2026. Horsepower and thrust are the FAA's figures for the series, not for a particular aircraft.