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N951LB — live tracking every few seconds while it is in the air, and who this aircraft is the rest of the time.

Illustration of Air Rescue 5 (N951LB), an Aerospatiale AS332L1 Super Puma, over the Los Angeles basin at dusk.
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Air Rescue 5
N951LBLASD · Aerospatiale AS332L1 Super Puma
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Airframe · FAA registry
Aerospatiale AS332L1 Super Puma
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About Air Rescue 5 (N951LB)

Operator
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Aircraft
Eurocopter AS332L1 Super Puma
Registration
N951LB
Mode S
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Sibling LASD Aero Bureau Super Puma to N952JH, sharing the Air Rescue 5 callsign + hoist-platform role. The two airframes rotate across patrol so either can show up on a given high-angle mountain or water rescue out of the Long Beach Aero Bureau base.

Where Air Rescue 5 flies

We have recorded Air Rescue 5 over 77 neighborhoods in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, 504 passes in all — most recently over Signal Hill on 23 August.

Counted from this site's own observations of the public ADS-B feed, not from a flight plan — a pass is a visit we watched, and the list is what we have seen, not everywhere this aircraft has been.

Scenes Air Rescue 5 worked

Our record ties Air Rescue 5 to 1 scene.

This record starts on 10 August and only includes scenes GTLA opened a page for — most of them opened automatically, when our tracking saw helicopters gather over one spot or follow a chase — so it is not a complete history of where this aircraft has flown.

The rest of the Air Rescue 5 fleet

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See what is flying directly over your own neighborhood at /here. GTLA AirWatch is an independent tracker; the broadcasters and agencies named on this page are not affiliated with GTLA.

The portrait of Air Rescue 5 is an AI-generated fleet illustration, made from photographs of the real aircraft; markings follow the photographed livery. LASD is not affiliated with GTLA.