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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh MBB-BK 117 C-2
N381MS is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh MBB-BK 117 C-2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). 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 December 16, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh
- Model
- MBB-BK 117 C-2 · all MBB-BK 117 C-2s 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 Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 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
- 9293
- 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
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A46025 (octal 51060045)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 16, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 8, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01534012
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 80111-1926
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.
Connections how N381MS links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 158 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
- Air Methods LLC 341 aircraft in the fleet
- Greenwood Village, CO 439 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,454 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 68 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 110 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Rib, cracked · 2026-01-22
- Report filed on this aircraft: Floor Skin, dented · 2026-01-22
- Report filed on this aircraft: Box Beam, chafed · 2026-01-21
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N381MS.json.
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The public federal record on N381MS, 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 December 16, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9293 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N381MS 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N381MS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data