Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC 135 P2
N917AC is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC 135 P2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2004. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Air Methods LLC, an LLC in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 16, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh
- Model
- EC 135 P2 · all EC 135 P2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 0351
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW206B SERIES · 431 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- ACB0AF (octal 53130257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 2, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 20, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 16, 2004
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00123989
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Methods LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 5500 S Quebec St Ste 300
Greenwood Village, CO 80111-1926
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N917AC, 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 Air Methods LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 2, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 16, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0351 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N917AC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Eurocopter EC 130 B4 (serial 4192, cancelled May 13, 2014). 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 N917AC: Incident on May 18, 2001 at Quinhagak, AK: no injuries, minor 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: Cessna 207 · operated under 091
An in-flight fracture of the engine crankshaft during descent, precipitated by restricted oil flow through an internal engine oil passage/port.
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