Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 B-2
N880SL is a Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 B-2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1988. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Air Methods LLC, an LLC in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 4, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm
- Model
- BK 117 B-2 · all BK 117 B-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 7130
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Lycoming LTS-101 SER · 317 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1988
- Transponder code
- AC1F70 (octal 53017560)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2009
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 20, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · November 4, 1988
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00395380
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Methods LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5500 S Quebec St Ste 300
Greenwood Village, CO 80111-1914
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N880SL, 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 December 9, 2009, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated November 4, 1988, consistent with the 1988 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7130 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N880SL 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 N880SL: Accident on April 25, 2025 at Hartford, IL: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 · operated under 135
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the initial climb at night from a confined area landing zone, that resulted in an impact with a tree, a loss of control, and a subsequent impact with terrain.
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- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data