Eurocopter EC 130 B4
N456AE is an Eurocopter EC 130 B4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2001. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Eurotec Vertical Flight Solutions LLC, an LLC in Eudora, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 11, 2011 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 26, 2002.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter
- Model
- EC 130 B4 · all EC 130 B4s 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 EC 130 now H130 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
- 3492
- 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, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIEL 2B1 · 747 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A5886B (octal 51304153)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 11, 2011
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- 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 26, 2002
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00174027
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eurotec Vertical Flight Solutions 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
- 1040 Ocl Pkwy
Eudora, KS 66025-9565
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N456AE links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 310 registered
- Eurocopter 666 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2B1 271 aircraft with this engine series · 747 hp
- Type certificate H9EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Eurotec Vertical Flight Solutions LLC 34 aircraft in the fleet
- Eudora, KS 43 aircraft registered in this town
- Kansas 5,738 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 83 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 854 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 162 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2B1 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2B1 758 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Windshield, cracked · 2004-11-13
- Report filed on this aircraft: Windshield, cracked · 2004-11-13
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The public federal record on N456AE, 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 Eurotec Vertical Flight Solutions LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 11, 2011, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 26, 2002, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3492 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N456AE 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 N456AE. 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