Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm BO-105S
N65DA is a Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm BO-105S, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1991. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Center For Vertical Studies LLC, an LLC in Sheridan, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 23, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 16, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm
- Model
- BO-105S · all BO-105Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- S-854
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Allison 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A88AAD (octal 52105255)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 23, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- July 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 16, 2013
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01118810
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Center For Vertical Studies LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 30 N Gould St Ste N
Sheridan, WY 82801-6317
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 N65DA, 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 Center For Vertical Studies LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 23, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 16, 2013, 22 years after the 1991 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 S-854 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N65DA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Embraer EMB-110P1 (serial 110389, cancelled May 18, 1995). 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 N65DA: Accident on May 24, 1988 at Lawton, OK: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Embraer EMB-110P · operated under 135
NONE SUBMITTED
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA88MA059 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