Eurocopter EC120B
N820PM is an Eurocopter EC120B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2013. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Heli Ranch LLC, an LLC in Bulverde, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 8, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 10, 2014.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter
- Model
- EC120B · all EC120Bs 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. Composite fuselage shells and tail boom. This is how the Airbus Helicopters EC120 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
- 1686
- 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, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIUS 2F · 432 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- AB322C (octal 52631054)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 8, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 8, 2025
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 10, 2014
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01144598
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heli Ranch LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 30257 Sherri Lea
Bulverde, TX 78163-4113
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N820PM links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters EC120 71 registered
- Eurocopter 666 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIUS 2F 62 aircraft with this engine series · 432 hp
- Type certificate R0001RD · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Heli Ranch LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Bulverde, TX 56 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters EC120 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus Helicopters EC120 222 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters EC120 67 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIUS 2F 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIUS 2F 29 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Wire, chafed · 2017-06-27
- Report filed on this aircraft: Pressure Switch, chafed · 2017-06-26
- Report filed on this aircraft: Pressure Switch, chafed · 2015-06-29
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N820PM.json.
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The public federal record on N820PM, 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 Heli Ranch LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 8, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 10, 2014, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1686 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N820PM 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 N820PM. 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