Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh MBB-BK 117 C-1
N117UP is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh MBB-BK 117 C-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1994. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Metro Aviation INC, a corporation in Shreveport, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 2013 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated July 19, 1994.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh
- Model
- MBB-BK 117 C-1 · all MBB-BK 117 C-1s 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; composite fuselage shells on the newer designs. This is how the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-1 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
- 7508
- 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 · Turbomeca ARRIEL 1SER · 681 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A04804 (octal 50044004)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 13, 2013
- Expires
- November 30, 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 · July 19, 1994
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00885022
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Metro Aviation 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
- 1214 Hawn Ave
Shreveport, LA 71107-6612
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N117UP links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-1 9 registered
- Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh 411 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 1 series 132 aircraft with this engine series · 681 hp
- Type certificate H13EU · held by Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (Ahd)
- Metro Aviation INC 69 aircraft in the fleet
- Shreveport, LA 276 aircraft registered in this town
- Shreveport Downtown Airport · DTN
- Shreveport Regional · SHV
- Louisiana 3,729 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-1 38 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-1 82 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Motor, inoperative · 2021-04-07
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fuel Control, defective · 2011-05-24
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bearing, making metal · 2011-03-30
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N117UP.json.
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The public federal record on N117UP, 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 Metro Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 13, 2013, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated July 19, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7508 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N117UP 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 N117UP. 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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data