Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh MBB-BK 117 C-1
N198LS is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh MBB-BK 117 C-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2001. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Metro Aviation INC, a corporation in Shreveport, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 5, 2011 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 18, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh
- Model
- MBB-BK 117 C-1 · all MBB-BK 117 C-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 7537
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Turbomeca ARRIEL 1SER · 681 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A186EE (octal 50303356)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 5, 2011
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · October 18, 2001
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00083897
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Metro Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N198LS, 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 August 5, 2011, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated October 18, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7537 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N198LS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stephani Lowell A VANCRAFT (serial LS1986, cancelled August 21, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N198LS. 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 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
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