Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK 117 C-2
N608UW is an Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK 117 C-2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2020. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Metro Aviation INC, a corporation in Shreveport, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 10, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 13, 2020. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Inc
- Model
- MBB-BK 117 C-2 · all MBB-BK 117 C-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 9850
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Safran ARRIEL 1E2 · 708 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- A7E6CE (octal 51763316)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 10, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · May 13, 2020
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01312311
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Metro Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1214 Hawn Ave
Shreveport, LA 71107-6612
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Documents on file 1
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The public federal record on N608UW, 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 Metro Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 10, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated May 13, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9850 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N608UW according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 25, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N608UW. 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