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N253SA

Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC 135 P2+

Valid Illinois

N253SA is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC 135 P2+, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2010. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Bennett Aviation LLC, an LLC in Elmhurst, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 10, 2010 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 2, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh
Model
EC 135 P2+ · all EC 135 P2+s and related versions
Serial number
0890
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW206B2 · 447 hp
Seats
7
Year built
2010
Transponder code
A26434 (octal 50462064)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 10, 2010
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · November 2, 2010
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01060538

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bennett Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
395 W Lake St
Elmhurst, IL 60126-1508

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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 N253SA, 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 Bennett Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 10, 2010, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated November 2, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0890 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N253SA 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 N253SA. 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 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