NorthStar Helicopters (Northstar Trekking, LLC)
Flies as NorthStar Helicopters, as its own website says; the certificate is in the name Northstar Trekking, LLC. Holds an FAA charter and air-taxi certificate (Part 135) under the designator N5JA, overseen by the FAA office coded AL05. 12 aircraft are listed on the certificate, mostly AS-350-B2. Based in Juneau, Alaska, where it registers its own aircraft.
Website: northstartrekking.com (found by search; tell us if it is wrong)
About NorthStar Helicopters (Northstar Trekking, LLC) from its own website, read October 13, 2026
NorthStar Helicopters operates helicopter tours and glacier treks in Juneau, Alaska, offering flightseeing, glacier hiking, ice climbing, dog sledding, and airboat adventures. The company also provides year-round helicopter charter and contract services throughout Alaska for wildlife surveys, forestry, government contracts, and external load operations.
- Calls itself
- NorthStar Helicopters
- What it is
- Helicopter operator
- Bases
- Juneau, AK PNH
- Aircraft it names
- A-Star
- Services
- helicopter tours, glacier trekking, ice climbing, dog sledding, airboat tours, helicopter charter, wildlife survey, heli-ski, external load operations, search and rescue support
- Fuel
- Shell
- Founded
- 1998
- Address
- 1890 Renshaw Way, Juneau, AK, 99801
- Telephone
- +1 907 790 4530
Written by the site from the pages of northstartrekking.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 Out of date or wrong?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 and aircraft the company owns. 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, 12 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.
Hiring 9 openings on NorthStar Helicopters (Northstar Trekking, LLC)'s own website
- Glacier Guide · Juneau, Alaska
- Ground Crew · Juneau, Alaska
- Dispatch/Manifest · Juneau, Alaska
- Receptionist/Retail · Juneau, Alaska
- Dock Representative · Juneau, Alaska
- Van Driver · Juneau, Alaska
- Aircraft Fuel Technician · Juneau, Alaska
- Pilots · Juneau, Alaska
- Mechanics · Juneau, Alaska
Read from the employer's site; applications go there. Every aviation opening.
Connections how this operator links to the rest of the register
- Aerospatiale AS350 4 on the certificate
- Airbus Helicopters AS350 AStar (Écureuil), now H125 4 on the certificate
- S N I A S AS-350 1 on the certificate
- Eurocopter 5 on the certificate
- Aerospatiale 4 on the certificate
- American Eurocopter Llc 1 on the certificate
- Juneau, AK · where it registers its own aircraft
- Juneau International · JNU
- Alaska 9,143 aircraft registered
- Northstar Trekking LLC 8 aircraft in the fleet · the aircraft the FAA register lists under this name
- FAA charter and air-taxi certificate 12 aircraft listed · designator N5JA
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/operator/northstar-trekking-llc.json.
Aircraft on the certificate 12 · grouped by the FAA's model shorthand
AS-350-B2 10
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N356NS | Aerospatiale AS350 B2 ECUREUIL | Northstar Trekking LLC | 1991 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N390NS | Eurocopter AS 350 B2 | Northstar Trekking LLC | 1992 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N391NS | Eurocopter AS 350 B2 | Northstar Trekking LLC | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 | |
| N392NS | Eurocopter AS 350 B2 | Northstar Trekking LLC | 2006 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N393NS | American Eurocopter Llc AS350B2 | North Star Trekking LLC Juneau, AK | 2009 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N394NS | S N I A S AS-350B ECUREUIL | Northstar Trekking Juneau, AK | 1979 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N395NS | Aerospatiale AS350 B2 ECUREUIL | Northstar Trekking LLC | 1991 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N398NS | Aerospatiale AS350 B2 ECUREUIL | Northstar Trekking LLC | 1989 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N399NS | Aerospatiale AS350 B2 ECUREUIL | Northstar Trekking LLC | 1991 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N802TH | Eurocopter AS 350 B2 | Temsco Helicopters INC Ketchikan, AK | 2000 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
AS-350-B3 2
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N16NS | Eurocopter AS 350 B3 | Ns Air Leasing LLC Wilmington, DE | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 | |
| N397NS | American Eurocopter Corp AS350B3 | Northstar Trekking LLC | 2012 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
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 11, 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.