Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm Gmb BO 105M
N8974M is a Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm Gmb BO 105M, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1982. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Dd Choppers LLC, an LLC in Mc Laughlin, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 16, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 23, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm Gmb
- Model
- BO 105M · all BO 105Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 6097
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Allison 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- AC6245 (octal 53061105)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 16, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 16, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · June 23, 2023
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01330481
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dd Choppers LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 560
Mc Laughlin, SD 57642-0560
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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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8974M, 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 Dd Choppers LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 16, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 23, 2023, 41 years after the 1982 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 6097 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8974M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 35-B33 (serial CD728, cancelled December 12, 1989). 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]
1 NTSB record under N8974M: Accident on January 10, 1989 at Ripon, CA: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 35-B33 · operated under 091
CONTINUED FLIGHT BY THE PILOT INTO KNOWN ICING CONDITIONS AND STRUCTURAL (WING) ICING, WHICH SUBSEQUENTLY RESULTED IN AN UNCONTROLLED STALL. A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR WAS THE ICING CONDITION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX89FA082 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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