Airbus Helicopters Deutschland MBB-BK 117 C-2
N816EC is an Airbus Helicopters Deutschland MBB-BK 117 C-2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2015. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Pitt County Memorial Hospital, a corporation in Greenville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 23, 2016.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Metro Aviation, INC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen October 30 at 5:33 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Deutschland
- 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
- 9685
- 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 · Turbomeca ARRIEL 1E2 · 708 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- AB200D (octal 52620015)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 18, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- 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 23, 2016
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01201696
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pitt County Memorial Hospital
- 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
- 2100 Stantonsburg Rd
Greenville, NC 27834-2818
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.
Connections how N816EC links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 159 registered
- Airbus Helicopters Deutschland 154 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Metro Aviation, INC · charter operator
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 1E2 102 aircraft with this engine series · 708 hp
- Type certificate H13EU · held by Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (Ahd)
- Pitt County Memorial Hospital 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Greenville, NC 61 aircraft registered in this town
- Pitt-Greenville Airport · PGV
- North Carolina 7,120 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 69 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 110 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 1E2 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 1E2 163 reports since 1995
- Where N816EC is now · Last seen October 30 at 5:33 pm.
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The public federal record on N816EC, 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 Pitt County Memorial Hospital, a corporation, certificate issued August 18, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated August 23, 2016, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9685 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N816EC 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 N816EC. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data