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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 B-2
N1174U is a Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 B-2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1988. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Guardian Helicopters INC, a corporation in Fillmore, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 19, 1998.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Guardian Helicopters INC, so it can be flown for hire.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm
- Model
- BK 117 B-2 · all BK 117 B-2s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Composite rotor blades; the airframe is aluminium. This is how the Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 7146
- 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-750-B-1 · 461 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1988
- Transponder code
- A0492B (octal 50044453)
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 21, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 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 · December 19, 1998
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00375001
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Guardian Helicopters INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 67 D St
Fillmore, CA 93015-1668
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N1174U links to the rest of the register
- Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 12 registered
- Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm 36 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Guardian Helicopters INC · charter operator
- Lycoming LTS-750-B-1 1 aircraft with this engine series · 461 hp
- Type certificate H13EU · held by Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (Ahd)
- Guardian Helicopters INC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Fillmore, CA 25 aircraft registered in this town
- California 28,112 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 4,506 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Cyclic Control, malfunctioned · 2018-03-04
- Report filed on this aircraft: Indicator, fluctuates · 2011-06-04
- Report filed on this aircraft: Gearbox, making metal · 2011-04-15
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1174U.json.
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The public federal record on N1174U, 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 Guardian Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 21, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 19, 1998, 10 years after the 1988 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7146 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1174U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17266875, cancelled October 11, 1990). 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 N1174U: Accident on March 5, 2018 at Sheboygan, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 B-2 · operated under 135
The restricted cyclic control movement for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident examination and testing of the cyclic control system did not reveal any evidence of mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 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 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data