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N605AV

Airbus Helicopters Deutschland MBB-BK 117 D-2

N605AV is an Airbus Helicopters Deutschland MBB-BK 117 D-2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2017. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Avera Mckennan, a corporation in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 5, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 10, 2017.

Aircraft

Maker
Airbus Helicopters Deutschland
Model
MBB-BK 117 D-2 · all MBB-BK 117 D-2s and related versions
Serial number
20153
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 2 motors · Safran ARRIEL 2E · 894 hp
Seats
11
Year built
2017
Transponder code
A7D9E6 (octal 51754746)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 5, 2018
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · November 10, 2017
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01267503

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Avera Mckennan
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 5045
Sioux Falls, SD 57117-5045

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N605AV, 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 Avera Mckennan, a corporation, certificate issued January 5, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated November 10, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20153 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N605AV according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N605AV. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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