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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 2, 2026Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 B-2
N117AM 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 Jc Aircraft Leasing LLC, an LLC in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2022 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 22, 1998.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Soloy Helicopters LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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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
- 7140
- 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
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1988
- Transponder code
- A04640 (octal 50043100)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 9, 2022
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 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 · May 22, 1998
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00465380
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jc Aircraft Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3800 W Aviation Ave
Wasilla, AK 99654-6946
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 N117AM 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
- Soloy Helicopters 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)
- Jc Aircraft Leasing LLC 10 aircraft in the fleet
- Wasilla, AK 1,273 aircraft registered in this town
- Wasilla Airport · IYS
- Blodgett Lake Seaplane Base · D75
- Cottonwood Lake Seaplane Base · 3H3
- Island Lake Seaplane Base · 29A
- 6 more landing places in town
- Alaska 9,143 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 4,497 reports since 1995
- Failure reports on the Lycoming LTS-101 series 1,391 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Rail, cracked · 2015-01-15
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fire Detector, defective · 2014-10-27
- Report filed on this aircraft: Heat Shield, corroded · 2011-04-22
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N117AM.json.
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The public federal record on N117AM, 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 Jc Aircraft Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 9, 2022, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 22, 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 7140 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N117AM 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 N117AM. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data