Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC135T1
N109BC is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC135T1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1999. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Broward County Sheriffs Office, a government body in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 8, 2010 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 14, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh
- Model
- EC135T1 · all EC135T1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 0139
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 2 motors · Turbomeca ARRIUS 2B1 · 577 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A0263F (octal 50023077)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 8, 2010
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 14, 2000
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00393533
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Broward County Sheriffs Office
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 2601 W Broward Blvd
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312-1308
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N109BC, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Broward County Sheriffs Office, a government body, certificate issued April 8, 2010, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 14, 2000, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0139 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N109BC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18-150 (serial 18-8366, cancelled June 29, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N109BC: Accident on August 28, 2023 at Pompano Beach, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Eurocopter EC135 · operated under 135
An inflight fire outside of the engine firewalls, likely from overheating of the No. 1 engine for undetermined reasons, which resulted in a partial tailboom separation.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data