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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Md Helicopters Inc MD 900
N902LC is a Md Helicopters Inc MD 900, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2007. 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 July 31, 2007 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 13, 2007.
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 5:48 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Md Helicopters Inc
- 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 Md Helicopters Inc 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
- 900-00118
- 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 PW207E · 646 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- AC7797 (octal 53073627)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2007
- 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 · June 13, 2007
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00289059
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 N902LC links to the rest of the register
- Md Helicopters Inc MD 900 11 registered
- Md Helicopters Inc 145 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 PW207E 9 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 158 aircraft registered in this town
- Springfield-Branson Ntl Airport · SGF
- Downtown Airport · 3DW
- Flying Bar H Ranch Airport · MO2
- Missouri 5,817 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Md Helicopters Inc MD 900 37 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Md Helicopters Inc MD 900 55 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207E 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207E 45 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Transmission, making metal · 2014-01-22
- Report filed on this aircraft: Transmission, making metal · 2012-06-09
- Report filed on this aircraft: Impeller, damaged · 2011-05-09
- Where N902LC is now · Last seen yesterday at 5:48 pm.
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The public federal record on N902LC, 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 July 31, 2007, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 13, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 900-00118 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N902LC 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 N902LC: Accident on November 27, 2014 at Highlandville, MO: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: MD Helicopter INC MD 900 · operated under 135
The pilot's inability to identify the power line during the initial approach in night visual meteorological conditions and his subsequent failure to avoid the power line once he identified it on final approach.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
