Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm Gmb BO 105M
N8972M is a Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm Gmb BO 105M, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1981. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Rocky Mountain Oyster CO Aviation LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 4, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 28, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm Gmb
- Model
- BO 105M · all BO 105Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 6085
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Allison 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- AC61FF (octal 53060777)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 4, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 4, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · June 28, 2022
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01330488
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rocky Mountain Oyster CO Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 821 Foxglove Dr
Kalispell, MT 59901-1332
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8972M, 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 Rocky Mountain Oyster CO Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 4, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 28, 2022, 41 years after the 1981 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6085 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8972M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172L (serial 17260572, cancelled June 23, 1972); Beech 35-B33 (serial CD-724, cancelled September 9, 1964). 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 N8972M. 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 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data