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Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC 135 P2+
N226SA is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC 135 P2+, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2007. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Bennett Aviation LLC, an LLC in Elmhurst, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 27, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 25, 2007.
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 P2+ · all EC 135 P2+s 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. 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
- 0559
- 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 · P&W Canada PW206B · 431 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A1F8DC (octal 50374334)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 27, 2017
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 25, 2007
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00347509
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bennett Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 395 W Lake St
Elmhurst, IL 60126-1508
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
Connections how N226SA links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters EC-135 now H135 396 registered
- Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh 411 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Metro Aviation, INC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206B 26 aircraft with this engine series · 431 hp
- Type certificate H88EU · held by Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (Ahd)
- Bennett Aviation LLC 13 aircraft in the fleet
- Elmhurst, IL 16 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,055 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters EC-135 now H135 80 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus Helicopters EC-135 now H135 1,521 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters EC-135 now H135 126 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206B 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206B 165 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N226SA.json.
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The public federal record on N226SA, 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 Bennett Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 27, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 25, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0559 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N226SA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dehavilland DHC-6-300 (serial 585, cancelled March 1, 2012). 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]
1 NTSB record under N226SA: Accident on June 18, 2022 at Waukesha, WI: no 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 Deutschland GMBH EC 135 P2+ · operated under 135
The separation and subsequent ingestion of the fenestron fairing cover into the fenestron blades for undetermined reasons.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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