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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Agusta Spa A109E
N238AM is an Agusta Spa A109E, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Air Methods LLC, an LLC in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 8, 2015 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 31, 2015.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Air Methods LLC, so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen October 23 at 5:40 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Agusta Spa
- Model
- A109E · all A109Es 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 Agusta Spa A109 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
- 11084
- 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 PW206C · 561 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A22644 (octal 50423104)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 8, 2015
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- December 11, 2024
- 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 · July 31, 2015
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01167857
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Methods 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
- 5500 S Quebec St Ste 300
Greenwood Village, CO 80111-1914
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 N238AM links to the rest of the register
- Agusta Spa A109 107 registered
- Agusta Spa 160 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
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206C 43 aircraft with this engine series · 561 hp
- Type certificate H7EU · held by Leonardo S P A
- Air Methods LLC 342 aircraft in the fleet
- Greenwood Village, CO 439 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,455 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Agusta Spa A109 115 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Agusta Spa A109 216 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Agusta Spa A109 134 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206C 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206C 63 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Hydraulic Line, leaking · 2024-05-30
- Where N238AM is now · Last seen October 23 at 5:40 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N238AM.json.
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The public federal record on N238AM, 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 Air Methods LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 8, 2015, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 31, 2015, 15 years after the 2000 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11084 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N238AM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC 135 P2+ (serial 0565, cancelled October 29, 2008). 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 N238AM: Accident on May 31, 2008 at Pottsville, PA: 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 Deutschland EC 135 P2+ · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to ensure that both engine switches were in the FLIGHT position for takeoff.
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 October 28, 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