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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026
N442ME

Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC 135 T2+

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas

N442ME is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC 135 T2+, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2011. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Ma Aviation Capital 1 LLC, an LLC in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 19, 2012.

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Aircraft

Maker
Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh
Model
EC 135 T2+ · all EC 135 T2+s 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
1042
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 ARRIUS 2B2 · 642 hp
Seats
12
Year built
2011
Transponder code
A55323 (octal 51251443)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
July 15, 2026
Expires
July 31, 2033
Last FAA action
July 15, 2026
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 · July 19, 2012
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01091934

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ma Aviation Capital 1 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
1138 Castellina Ln
Houston, TX 77055-1047

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N442ME links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIUS 2B2 48 aircraft with this engine series · 642 hp
  • Type certificate H88EU · held by Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (Ahd)
Owner
Place

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N442ME, 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 Ma Aviation Capital 1 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 15, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated July 19, 2012, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1042 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N442ME 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 N442ME. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data