Group 3 Helicopters (Group 3 Aviation INC)
Flies as Group 3 Helicopters, as its own website says; the certificate is in the name Group 3 Aviation INC. Holds an FAA charter and air-taxi certificate (Part 135) under the designator G31A, overseen by the FAA office coded WP01. 2 aircraft are listed on the certificate, mostly R-44-II. Most of the aircraft on its certificate are registered in Van Nuys, California.
Website: group3aviation.com (found by search; tell us if it is wrong)
About Group 3 Helicopters (Group 3 Aviation INC) from its own website, read October 13, 2026
Group 3 Helicopters operates helicopter tours and charters in the Los Angeles area, offering sightseeing flights over landmarks, coastlines, and mountains, as well as aerial photography services and custom charter trips. The company has been in operation for over 30 years and is based in Van Nuys, California.
Written by the site from the pages of group3aviation.com on October 13, 2026; the company's own words and pictures stay on its site. Out of date or wrong? Tell us.
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In the air now from the volunteer receiver network
None of this operator's aircraft is in the air over the United States right now, as far as the network can hear. See them on the live map. Counted here: aircraft on the certificate. No callsign is on file for this operator, so flights under another code are not counted. Aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out.
Where the aircraft are in the air, on the ground, parked, or not heard lately · refreshed every half minute
None in the air, 1 not heard lately, 1 not heard since the site began listening.
Positions from the volunteer receiver network: an aircraft is "parked" when it was last heard on the ground within 7 days (it may have moved under a hangar roof or flown with the transponder off); "not heard" means nothing has been received since the date shown. Aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out.
Connections how this operator links to the rest of the register
- Robinson R44 2 on the certificate
- Robinson Helicopter 2 on the certificate
- Van Nuys, CA · where most of the aircraft on its certificate are registered
- Van Nuys Airport · VNY
- California 28,279 aircraft registered
- FAA charter and air-taxi certificate 2 aircraft listed · designator G31A
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/operator/group-3-aviation-inc.json.
Aircraft on the certificate 2 · grouped by the FAA's model shorthand
R-44-II 2
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N441NC | Robinson Helicopter R44 II | Charlie Papa LLC Van Nuys, CA | 2005 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N444NC | Robinson Helicopter R44 II | Charlie Papa LLC Van Nuys, CA | 2007 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Thursday at 12:41 am, in the air then |
Sources: the FAA's list of Part 135 and 121 certificate holders and the aircraft on each certificate, November 9, 2026; the FAA Civil Aviation Registry, November 12, 2026; the volunteer receiver network for what is in the air. An aircraft on a charter certificate is often owned by someone else and managed by the operator. Contact people named in the sources are not shown, the site's policy at this time. Is this your company? Claim or correct this listing: fix the base, add your website, send your own pictures. Add the "Listed on eFlight" badge to your website.