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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK 117 C-2
N142AH is an Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK 117 C-2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2021. It has 10 seats. It is registered to First-Citizens Bank & Trust CO, a corporation in Morristown, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 12, 2021.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Air Methods 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 yesterday at 10:53 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Inc
- Model
- MBB-BK 117 C-2 · all MBB-BK 117 C-2s 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 MBB-BK 117 C-2 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
- 9866
- 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 · Safran ARRIEL 1E2 · 708 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A0AA26 (octal 50125046)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 12, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 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 · May 12, 2021
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01332826
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- First-Citizens Bank & Trust CO
- 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
- 340 Mount Kemble Ave Ste 100
Morristown, NJ 07960-6656
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 N142AH links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 159 registered
- Airbus Helicopters Inc 379 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Air Methods LLC · charter operator
- Safran ARRIEL 1E2 44 aircraft with this engine series · 708 hp
- Type certificate H13EU · held by Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (Ahd)
- First-Citizens Bank & Trust CO 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Morristown, NJ 53 aircraft registered in this town
- Morristown Municipal · MMU
- New Jersey 3,017 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 69 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 110 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Safran ARRIEL 1E2 5 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Warning Message, illuminated · 2025-11-02
- Report filed on this aircraft: Engine, failed · 2024-09-21
- Report filed on this aircraft: Unknown, unknown · 2023-03-24
- Where N142AH is now · Last seen yesterday at 10:53 pm.
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The public federal record on N142AH, 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 First-Citizens Bank & Trust CO, a corporation, certificate issued March 12, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated May 12, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9866 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N142AH 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 N142AH. 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 October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data