American Eurocopter Corp MBB-BK 117 C-2
N542AE is an American Eurocopter Corp MBB-BK 117 C-2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 10 seats. It is registered to Airbus Helicopters INC, a non-citizen corporation in Grand Prairie, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 30, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 27, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American Eurocopter Corp
- Model
- MBB-BK 117 C-2 · all MBB-BK 117 C-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 9608
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Turbomeca ARRIEL 1E2 · 708 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6DF5F (octal 51557537)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 30, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 30, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · August 27, 2013
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01125465
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Airbus Helicopters INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 2701 N Forum Dr
Grand Prairie, TX 75052-8927
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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N542AE, 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 Airbus Helicopters INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued June 30, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9608 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N542AE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: American Eurocopter Llc MBB-BK 117 C-2 (serial 9201, cancelled November 7, 2008). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N542AE. 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 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