Eurocopter EC120B
N266SD is an Eurocopter EC120B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Sacramento County Sheriffs Department, a government body in Mather, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2001 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 22, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter
- Model
- EC120B · all EC120Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1133
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIUS 2F · 432 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A296DB (octal 50513333)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 4, 2001
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 22, 2001
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00103695
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sacramento County Sheriffs Department
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 3846 Bazley Way
Mather, CA 95655-4000
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N266SD, 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 Sacramento County Sheriffs Department, a government body, certificate issued June 4, 2001, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 22, 2001, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1133 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N266SD according to the deregistered file. [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 N266SD: Accident on July 14, 2005 at Fair Oaks, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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 France EC120B · operated under PUBU
The failure of the constant delta P diaphragm in the fuel control unit, which resulted in an increased fuel flow and subsequent catastrophic failure of the engine. The diaphragm's failure was the result of improper installation by the engine manufacturer. A factor in the accident was the unsuitable nature of the terrain for a successful autorotation.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data