Eurocopter EC 130 B4
N55GJ is an Eurocopter EC 130 B4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2003. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Cfa Holdings INC, a corporation in Knoxville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2014 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 12, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter
- Model
- EC 130 B4 · all EC 130 B4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 3745
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIEL 2B1 · 747 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A6FDB1 (octal 51576661)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 10, 2014
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 12, 2003
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00074609
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cfa Holdings INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 520 W Summit Hill Dr Ste 801
Knoxville, TN 37902-2006
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N55GJ, 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 Cfa Holdings INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 10, 2014, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 12, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3745 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N55GJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Larson Greg Pearce RV 4 (serial 2058, cancelled September 10, 1993). 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 N55GJ: Accident on August 3, 2020 at Knoxville, TN: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Eurocopter EC130 · operated under 091
The pilot's entry into vortex ring state and his inability to arrest the helicopter's descent while maneuvering for landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA20LA273 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