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Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC135P1
N135BU is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC135P1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Metro Aviation INC, a corporation in Shreveport, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2003 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 11, 2003.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Metro Aviation, INC, so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 10:52 am.
Last seen October 17 at 10:52 am. Checking whether it is in the air right now…
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh
- Model
- EC135P1 · all EC135P1s 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. Largely composite fuselage shells. This is how the Airbus Helicopters EC-135 now H135 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
- 0015
- 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 · P&W Canada PW206B SERIES · 431 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A08DF0 (octal 50106760)
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 7, 2003
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 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 · March 11, 2003
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00030449
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
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 N135BU links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters EC-135 now H135 396 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
- Metro Aviation, INC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206B series 44 aircraft with this engine series · 431 hp
- Type certificate H88EU · 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 EC-135 now H135 80 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus Helicopters EC-135 now H135 1,521 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters EC-135 now H135 126 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bypass Valve, defective · 2020-05-26
- Report filed on this aircraft: Servo, damaged · 2019-04-29
- Where N135BU is now · Last seen October 17 at 10:52 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N135BU.json.
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The public federal record on N135BU, 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 February 7, 2003, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 11, 2003, 6 years after the 1997 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 0015 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N135BU 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 N135BU. 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