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N981HP

Airbus Helicopters Inc AS350B3

N981HP is an Airbus Helicopters Inc AS350B3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2016. It has 7 seats. It is registered to California Highway Patrol, a government body in Sacramento, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 19, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 5, 2016.

Aircraft

Maker
Airbus Helicopters Inc
Model
AS350B3
Serial number
8169
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIEL 2D · 802 hp
Seats
7
Year built
2016
Transponder code
ADAF98 (octal 53327630)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 19, 2017
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · April 5, 2016
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01203835

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
California Highway Patrol
Type
Government
Address
601 N 7Th St
Sacramento, CA 95811-0208
Co-owners
Office Of Air Operations

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data