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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK 117 C-2
N648BH is an Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK 117 C-2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2021. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Flight for Life INC, a corporation in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 18, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 26, 2021.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of IHC Health Services, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Inc
- Model
- MBB-BK 117 C-2 · all MBB-BK 117 C-2s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 9869
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Safran ARRIEL 1E2 · 708 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A88314 (octal 52101424)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 18, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 18, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 26, 2021
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01339245
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flight for Life INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2661 Aviation Rd
Waukesha, WI 53188-6903
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N648BH links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 158 registered
- Airbus Helicopters Inc 378 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- IHC Health Services, Inc. · charter operator
- Safran ARRIEL 1E2 44 aircraft with this engine series · 708 hp
- Type certificate H13EU · held by Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (Ahd)
- Flight for Life INC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Waukesha, WI 99 aircraft registered in this town
- Waukesha County · UES
- Wisconsin 6,166 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 68 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 110 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Safran ARRIEL 1E2 5 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N648BH, 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 Flight for Life INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 18, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated August 26, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9869 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N648BH according to the deregistered file. [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 N648BH. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data