Eurocopter EC 225 LP
N557AC is an Eurocopter EC 225 LP, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2014. It has 23 seats. It is registered to Vertical Aviation No 1 LLC, an LLC in Miami, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 28, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 14, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter
- Model
- EC 225 LP · all EC 225 LPs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2900
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Turbomeca MAKILA 2A1 · 1746 hp
- Seats
- 23
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A7196F (octal 51614557)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 28, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- June 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · May 14, 2021
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01318682
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vertical Aviation No 1 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 830 Brickell Plz Ste 5000
Miami, FL 33131-2904
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 N557AC, 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 Vertical Aviation No 1 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 28, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 14, 2021, 7 years after the 2014 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2900 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N557AC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R44 II (serial 11387, cancelled March 25, 2014). 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 N557AC: Accident on December 7, 2012 at Roosevelt Lake, AZ: serious 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: Robinson Helicopter Company R44 II · operated under 091
The pilot's visual disorientation, which resulted in a collision with the lake.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR13CA064 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