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Airbus Helicopters EC 130 T2
N855CH is an Airbus Helicopters EC 130 T2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2015. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Air Methods LLC, an LLC in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2015 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 17, 2015.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Air Methods LLC, so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 12:36 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters
- Model
- EC 130 T2 · all EC 130 T2s 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 EC 130 now H130 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
- 8055
- 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 ARRIEL 2D · 802 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- ABBA25 (octal 52735045)
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 31, 2015
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- December 20, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 17, 2015
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01174198
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Methods 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
- 5500 S Quebec St Ste 300
Greenwood Village, CO 80111-1914
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 N855CH links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 311 registered
- Airbus Helicopters 267 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Air Methods LLC · charter operator
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2D 232 aircraft with this engine series · 802 hp
- Type certificate H9EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Air Methods LLC 342 aircraft in the fleet
- Greenwood Village, CO 439 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,455 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 84 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 854 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 162 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2D 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2D 138 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bulkhead, cracked · 2025-01-29
- Report filed on this aircraft: Floor Support, corroded · 2021-04-13
- Where N855CH is now · Last seen October 17 at 12:36 pm.
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The public federal record on N855CH, 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 Air Methods LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 31, 2015, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 17, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8055 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N855CH 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 N855CH. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data