Eurocopter EC 130 B4
N151GC is an Eurocopter EC 130 B4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2007. It has 6 seats. It is registered to American Helicopters LLC, an LLC in Kirkland, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 5, 2008 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 27, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter
- Model
- EC 130 B4 · all EC 130 B4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4402
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIEL 2B1 · 747 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A0CE7F (octal 50147177)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 5, 2008
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 27, 2008
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00445849
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Helicopters LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 12515 Willows Rd NE Ste 200
Kirkland, WA 98034-8795
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.
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The public federal record on N151GC, 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 American Helicopters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 5, 2008, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 27, 2008, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4402 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N151GC 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]
1 NTSB record under N151GC: Accident on June 27, 2017 at Boulder City, NV: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Eurocopter EC 130 B4 · operated under 135
A loss of engine power due to the failure of the manufacturer to reinstall the oil filter after it was removed for inspection, which led to coke pollution that obstructed the oil jet and resulted in the subsequent oil starvation of the axial compressor rear bearing oil and its subsequent failure.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
