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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh MBB-BK 117 C-2
N911MK is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh MBB-BK 117 C-2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2008. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Avera Mckennan, a corporation in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2008 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 3, 2009.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Mris, 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 8:14 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh
- Model
- MBB-BK 117 C-2 · all MBB-BK 117 C-2s 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. This is how the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 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
- 9218
- 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 · Turbomeca ARRIEL 1E2 · 708 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- AC9B7F (octal 53115577)
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 20, 2008
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 3, 2009
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01018390
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Avera Mckennan
- 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
- 1325 S Cliff Ave
Sioux Falls, SD 57105-1007
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 N911MK links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 159 registered
- Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh 411 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Mris, LLC · charter operator
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 1E2 102 aircraft with this engine series · 708 hp
- Avera Mckennan 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Sioux Falls, SD 248 aircraft registered in this town
- Joe Foss Field · FSD
- South Dakota 2,273 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 69 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK 117 C-2 110 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 1E2 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 1E2 163 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Oil System, plugged · 2017-01-26
- Report filed on this aircraft: Structure, cracked · 2012-11-26
- Report filed on this aircraft: Compressor, seized · 2009-05-31
- Where N911MK is now · Last seen yesterday at 8:14 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N911MK.json.
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The public federal record on N911MK, 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 Avera Mckennan, a corporation, certificate issued November 20, 2008, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated March 3, 2009, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9218 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N911MK 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 N911MK: Incident on January 27, 2017 at Sioux Falls, SD: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Eurocopter Deutschland GMBH MBB BK 117 C-2 · operated under 135
The gas generator rear bearing oil scavenge line blocked with coke, which resulted in a failed rear bearing due to an excess of oil lubrication. Contributing to the incident was the operator not completely performing the maintenance items and not utilizing an oil for higher temperatures.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data