Mbb BK 117 A-3
N116SR is a Mbb BK 117 A-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 8 seats. It is registered to United States Department Of Energy, a government body in Aiken, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 19, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mbb
- Model
- BK 117 A-3
- Serial number
- 7012
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Lycoming LTS-101 SER · 317 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0441D (octal 50042035)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 25, 2021
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · August 19, 1988
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00790624
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Department Of Energy
- Type
- Government
- Address
- Attn Mark Spurlock
PO Box A
Aiken, SC 29802-0900
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N116SR, 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 United States Department Of Energy, a government body, certificate issued February 25, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N116SR according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N116SR. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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 August 27, 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