Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh MBB-BK 117 C-2
N854EC is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh MBB-BK 117 C-2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2010. It has 8 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Greenville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2010 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 21, 2010.
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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh
- 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
- 9327
- 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
- 8
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- ABB69B (octal 52733233)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 15, 2010
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 6, 2024
- 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 · October 21, 2010
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01048049
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pitt County Memorial Hospital INC
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (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 - Co-owners
- University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina INC
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 N854EC links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 159 registered
- Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh 411 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
- 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
- Report filed on this aircraft: Sensor, failed · 2022-08-07
- Report filed on this aircraft: Unknown, odor · 2022-07-25
- Report filed on this aircraft: Frame, cracked · 2016-03-17
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The public federal record on N854EC, 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 INC, a co-owned, certificate issued July 15, 2010, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated October 21, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9327 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N854EC 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]
1 NTSB record under N854EC: Accident on December 29, 2010 at Cherry Point, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Eurocopter MBB-BK · operated under 135
The pilot's impairment during cruise flight due to a recurring stroke. Contributing to the accident was the Federal Aviation Administration's inadequate oversight of the pilot's known medical condition.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data