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Eurocopter EC 130 B4
N130BU is an Eurocopter EC 130 B4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2011. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Ohio Medical Transportation INC, a corporation in Columbus, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 29, 2011.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Metro Aviation, INC, 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 12:57 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter
- Model
- EC 130 B4 · all EC 130 B4s 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. This is how the Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 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
- 7132
- 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, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIEL 2B1 · 747 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A07B5D (octal 50075535)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 24, 2018
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 29, 2011
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01066163
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ohio Medical Transportation 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
- 2827 W Dublin Granville Rd
Columbus, OH 43235-2712
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 N130BU links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 311 registered
- Eurocopter 668 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Metro Aviation, INC · charter operator
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2B1 271 aircraft with this engine series · 747 hp
- Type certificate H9EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Ohio Medical Transportation INC 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Columbus, OH 282 aircraft registered in this town
- Bolton Field · TZR
- John Glenn Columbus International · CMH
- Ohio State University Airport · OSU
- Rickenbacker International · LCK
- Ohio 8,529 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 84 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 855 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 162 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2B1 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2B1 758 reports since 1995
- Where N130BU is now · Last seen yesterday at 12:57 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N130BU.json.
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The public federal record on N130BU, 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 Ohio Medical Transportation INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 24, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 29, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7132 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N130BU 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 N130BU. 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