Eurocopter EC120B
N421PB is an Eurocopter EC120B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 5 seats. It is registered to Black Wolf Air LLC, an LLC in Lewes, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 4, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter
- Model
- EC120B · all EC120Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1403
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A5009D (octal 51200235)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 4, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00196139
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Black Wolf Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 16192 Coastal Hwy
Lewes, DE 19958-3608
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N421PB, 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 Black Wolf Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 4, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. 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 1403 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N421PB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 421C (serial 421C-0111, cancelled February 20, 1981). 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 N421PB: Accident on April 9, 2021 at Leroy, KS: no 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 EC120 · operated under 091
The contamination of the fuel injection manifold filter due to improper maintenance, resulting in a partial loss of engine power during cruise flight. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s delayed autorotation, which resulted in insufficient main rotor speed and an excessive descent rate at touchdown.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN21LA187 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 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