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N5074R

Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 B-2

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlaska

N5074R is a Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 B-2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1991. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Jc Aircraft Leasing LLC, an LLC in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 9, 1995.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Soloy Helicopters LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.

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Aircraft

Maker
Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm
Model
BK 117 B-2 · all BK 117 B-2s 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. Composite rotor blades; the airframe is aluminium. This is how the Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 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
7243
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 · Lycoming LTS-101 SER · 317 hp
Fuel
Jet A
Seats
7
Year built
1991
Transponder code
A656E5 (octal 51453345)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 8, 2025
Expires
November 30, 2032
Last FAA action
October 29, 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 9, 1995
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00993732

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Jc Aircraft Leasing 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
3800 W Aviation Ave
Wasilla, AK 99654-6946
Charter N5074R with Soloy Helicopters LLC:

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

1981-04-08Cessna 185 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Connections how N5074R links to the rest of the register

Design
Flies for
Engine
  • Lycoming LTS-101 series 29 aircraft with this engine series · 317 hp
  • Type certificate H13EU · held by Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (Ahd)
Owner
Place

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Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N5074R, 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 Jc Aircraft Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 8, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 9, 1995, 4 years after the 1991 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7243 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5074R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 185 (serial 18502998, cancelled April 8, 1981). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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

2 NTSB records under N5074R: Accident on August 28, 1993 at Mount Iliamna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 12, 1989 at Bell Mountain, AK: 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 2

ANC93LA158Accident on August 28, 1993 at Mount Iliamna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 1151D

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 369D · operated under 135

THE PILOT'S IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT PLANNING/DECISION, AND HIS DELAY IN TAKING REMEDIAL ACTION. FACTORS WERE THE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN AND GUSTY WINDS.

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

ANC89LA033Accident on January 12, 1989 at Bell Mountain, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 1151D

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 500-D · operated under 135

THE PILOT'S MISJUDGMENT OF HIS CLEARANCE ABOVE THE TERRAIN DUE TO DISTORTED VISUAL PERCEPTION. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE WHITEOUT CONDITION.

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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data