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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N138MH

Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC 135 T2+

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMaryland
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N138MH is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC 135 T2+, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2005. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Bay Life Services CORP, a corporation in Columbia, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 5, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 12, 2018.

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.

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Aircraft

Maker
Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh
Model
EC 135 T2+ · all EC 135 T2+s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A 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
0417
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 ARRIUS 2B2 · 642 hp
Seats
12
Year built
2005
Transponder code
A09A04 (octal 50115004)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
June 5, 2024
Expires
June 30, 2031
Last FAA action
June 5, 2024
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 · December 12, 2018
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00205839

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bay Life Services CORP
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
10980 Grantchester Way
Columbia, MD 21044-6097
Charter N138MH with Metro Aviation, INC:
Call 800.467.5529Website

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N138MH links to the rest of the register

Design
Flies for
Engine
  • Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIUS 2B2 48 aircraft with this engine series · 642 hp
  • Type certificate H88EU · held by Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (Ahd)
Owner
Place
  • Columbia, MD 85 aircraft registered in this town
  • Maryland 2,344 aircraft registered
Record
Airworthiness
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The public federal record on N138MH, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Bay Life Services CORP, a corporation, certificate issued June 5, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 12, 2018, 13 years after the 2005 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0417 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N138MH according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N138MH. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data