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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Mbb 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.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Centerra Group, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 6:55 pm.
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Flight history: where it flew in the last seven days · follow it on the live map
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mbb
- Model
- BK 117 A-3
- Serial number
- 7012
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Lycoming LTS-101 SER · 317 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0441D (octal 50042035)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 25, 2021
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 19, 1988
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00790624
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Department of Energy
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- Attn Mark Spurlock
PO Box A
Aiken, SC 29802-0900
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.
Connections how N116SR links to the rest of the register
- Mbb 5 aircraft on the register
- Centerra Group, LLC · charter operator
- Lycoming LTS-101 series 29 aircraft with this engine series · 317 hp
- Type certificate H13EU · held by Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (Ahd)
- United States Department of Energy 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Aiken, SC 59 aircraft registered in this town
- Aiken Regional · AIK
- South Carolina 3,112 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Lycoming LTS-101 series 1,391 reports since 1995
- Where N116SR is now · Last seen yesterday at 6:55 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N116SR.json.
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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 November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data