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N156UM

Eurocopter EC 155 B1

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMichigan

N156UM is an Eurocopter EC 155 B1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2011. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Regents Of The University Of Michigan, a government body in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 27, 2018 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 4, 2012.

Aircraft

Maker
Eurocopter
Model
EC 155 B1 · all EC 155 B1s and related versions
Serial number
6935
Type
RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 2 motors · Turbomeca ARRIEL 2C2 · 821 hp
Seats
6
Year built
2011
Transponder code
A0E247 (octal 50161107)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
December 27, 2018
Expires
December 31, 2028
Last FAA action
July 1, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 4, 2012
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01069556

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Regents Of The University Of Michigan
Type
GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
C/O Metro Aviation INC
747 Airport Dr
Ann Arbor, MI 48108-7910

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N156UM, 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 Regents Of The University Of Michigan, a government body, certificate issued December 27, 2018, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated February 4, 2012, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6935 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N156UM 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 N156UM. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data