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N817DD

Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 B-2

N817DD is a Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 B-2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1986. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Guardian Helicopters INC, a corporation in Fillmore, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 30, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 7, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm
Model
BK 117 B-2 · all BK 117 B-2s and related versions
Serial number
7057
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 2 motors · Lycoming LTS-101 SER · 317 hp
Seats
7
Year built
1986
Transponder code
AB23AC (octal 52621654)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 30, 2022
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
October 22, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · May 7, 2002
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00643976

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Guardian Helicopters INC
Type
Corporation
Address
67 D St
Fillmore, CA 93015-1668

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N817DD, 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 Guardian Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 30, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 7, 2002, 16 years after the 1986 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7057 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N817DD 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 N817DD. 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