Airbus Helicopters Deutschland MBB-BK 117 C-2
N903SH is an Airbus Helicopters Deutschland MBB-BK 117 C-2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2012. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Sanford North, a corporation in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 22, 2016 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 15, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Deutschland
- Model
- MBB-BK 117 C-2 · all MBB-BK 117 C-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 9432
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Turbomeca ARRIEL 1E2 · 708 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- AC7BE9 (octal 53075751)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 22, 2016
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · August 15, 2017
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01239139
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sanford North
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1305 W 18Th St
Sioux Falls, SD 57105-0401
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N903SH, 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 Sanford North, a corporation, certificate issued December 22, 2016, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 15, 2017, 5 years after the 2012 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 9432 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N903SH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 230 (serial 23002, cancelled December 28, 2016). 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 N903SH: Accident on September 30, 2016 at Fargo, ND: no 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: Bell 230 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from the ground obstacle during the landing with gusting winds present.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data