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N273AM

Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC135T2

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesColorado
Records check, free: 1 to understand, 4 clearWhere is it now

N273AM is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC135T2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2003. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Air Methods LLC, an LLC in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 20, 2010 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 6, 2003.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Air Methods LLC, so it can be flown for hire.

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Aircraft

Maker
Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh
Model
EC135T2 · all EC135T2s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A 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
0273
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 · Turbomeca ARRIEL SERIES · 985 hp
Seats
7
Year built
2003
Transponder code
A2B1AD (octal 50530655)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
April 20, 2010
Expires
February 28, 2030
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 · June 6, 2003
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00035879

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
Charter N273AM with Air Methods LLC:
Call 303-792-7400Website

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N273AM links to the rest of the register

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Place
  • Greenwood Village, CO 439 aircraft registered in this town
  • Colorado 7,455 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N273AM, 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 Air Methods LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 20, 2010, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated June 6, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0273 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N273AM 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N273AM: Accident on September 13, 2023 at Fargo, GA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ERA23LA369Accident on September 13, 2023 at Fargo, GA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Eurocopter Deutschland GMBH EC135T2 · operated under 091

The separation of the outer span of a tail rotor blade during flight as a result of localized intergranular corrosion due to a diminished protective coating at a critical location on the tail rotor blade surface that, combined with cyclic loading, resulted in fatigue crack propagation initiated at a corrosion site.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data