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Eurocopter EC 130 B4
N8959S is an Eurocopter EC 130 B4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2007. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Juliet INC, a corporation in Kirkland, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 26, 2010 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 3, 2007.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Papillon Airways INC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen Friday at 3:20 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter
- Model
- EC 130 B4 · all EC 130 B4s 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
- 4232
- 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 2B1 · 747 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- AC5B8B (octal 53055613)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 26, 2010
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- 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 · July 3, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00332019
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Juliet INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 12515 Willows Rd NE Ste 200
Kirkland, WA 98034-8795
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N8959S links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 311 registered
- Eurocopter 668 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Papillon Airways INC · charter operator
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2B1 271 aircraft with this engine series · 747 hp
- Type certificate H9EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Juliet INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Kirkland, WA 150 aircraft registered in this town
- Washington 10,664 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 85 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 855 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 162 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2B1 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 2B1 758 reports since 1995
- Where N8959S is now · Last seen Friday at 3:20 pm.
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The public federal record on N8959S, 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 Juliet INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 26, 2010, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 3, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4232 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8959S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150F (serial 15062259, cancelled November 18, 1977). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N8959S. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data