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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter MD 900
N902CH is a Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter MD 900, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1996. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Lester e Cox Medical Centers, a corporation in Springfield, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 28, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 24, 2017.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Air Methods LLC, 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 yesterday at 5:02 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter
- Model
- MD 900 · all MD 900s 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. Composite fuselage panels and a fan-in-tail instead of a tail rotor. This is how the Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter MD 900 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
- 900-00042
- 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, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW206E · 646 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- AC76D4 (octal 53073324)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 28, 2017
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 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 · October 24, 2017
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00946211
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lester e Cox Medical Centers
- 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
- 3850 S National Ave Ste 500
Springfield, MO 65807-5292
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 N902CH links to the rest of the register
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter MD 900 8 registered
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 135 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
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206E 3 aircraft with this engine series · 646 hp
- Type certificate H19NM · held by MD Helicopters INC (Mdhi)
- Lester e Cox Medical Centers 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Springfield, MO 157 aircraft registered in this town
- Springfield-Branson Ntl Airport · SGF
- Downtown Airport · 3DW
- Flying Bar H Ranch Airport · MO2
- Missouri 5,813 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter MD 900 435 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206E 4 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW206E 2 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Blade, delaminated · 2025-11-15
- Report filed on this aircraft: Track, defective · 2001-04-26
- Where N902CH is now · Last seen yesterday at 5:02 pm.
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The public federal record on N902CH, 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 Lester e Cox Medical Centers, a corporation, certificate issued November 28, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 24, 2017, 21 years after the 1996 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 900-00042 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N902CH 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 N902CH. 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