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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Mbb BK 117 A-3
N117SR is a Mbb BK 117 A-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1986. 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 May 1, 1987 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for forest, dated December 8, 1998.
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 October 29 at 9:56 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mbb
- Model
- BK 117 A-3
- Serial number
- 7084
- 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
- 1986
- Transponder code
- A047D4 (octal 50043724)
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 1, 1987
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- July 10, 2024
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ForestFAA certificate purpose code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 8, 1998
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00971666
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
- Savannah River Operations Office
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N117SR 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 N117SR is now · Last seen October 29 at 9:56 am.
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The public federal record on N117SR, 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 May 1, 1987, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 8, 1998, 12 years after the 1986 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 7084 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N117SR was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Messerschmitt BK 117 (serial 7019, cancelled date not given). 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 N117SR: Accident on September 9, 1985 at Aiken, SC: serious 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: Mbb BK-117A-1 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data