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Eurocopter EC 130 B4
N917Z is an Eurocopter EC 130 B4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2005. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Bighorn Holdings LLC, an LLC in Mccall, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 3, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter
- Model
- EC 130 B4 · all EC 130 B4s 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 EC 130 now H130 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
- 4042
- 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, 1 motor · Safran ARRIEL 2B1 · 747 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- ACB2EB (octal 53131353)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 29, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 29, 2024
- 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 · March 3, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01475305
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bighorn Holdings LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 330
Mccall, ID 83638-0330
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 2
Connections how N917Z links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 311 registered
- Eurocopter 668 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Safran ARRIEL 2B1 11 aircraft with this engine series · 747 hp
- Type certificate H9EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Bighorn Holdings LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Mccall, ID 77 aircraft registered in this town
- Idaho 4,199 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 85 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 855 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters EC 130 now H130 163 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Safran ARRIEL 2B1 3 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N917Z.json.
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The public federal record on N917Z, 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 Bighorn Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 29, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 3, 2025, 20 years after the 2005 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 4042 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N917Z was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: American Eurocopter Llc AS350B3 (serial 4403, cancelled October 26, 2022); Theiss Grudieaire 1 (serial JR 102, cancelled June 6, 1975). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N917Z. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data