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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Aerospatiale AS350 B2 ECUREUIL
N972BH is an Aerospatiale AS350 B2 ECUREUIL, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1994. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Black Mountain Aviation LLC, an LLC in Boulder City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2022 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 13, 1994.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerospatiale
- Model
- AS350 B2 ECUREUIL · all AS350 B2 ECUREUILs 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 rotor blades and a composite Starflex rotor head. This is how the Aerospatiale AS350 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
- 2804
- 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 · Turbomeca ARRIEL 1SER · 681 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- AD8B34 (octal 53305464)
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 8, 2022
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 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 · September 13, 1994
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00485082
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Black Mountain Aviation 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
- 1411 Airport Rd Ste 100
Boulder City, NV 89005-3660
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N972BH links to the rest of the register
- Aerospatiale AS350 65 registered
- Aerospatiale 178 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL 1 series 132 aircraft with this engine series · 681 hp
- Type certificate H9EU · held by Airbus Helicopters
- Black Mountain Aviation LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Boulder City, NV 83 aircraft registered in this town
- Boulder City Municipal · BVU
- Nevada 4,588 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Aerospatiale AS350 4,985 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Wire, shorted · 2011-11-14
- Report filed on this aircraft: Gearbox, making metal · 2010-02-22
- Report filed on this aircraft: Chip Detector, activated · 2006-04-25
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The public federal record on N972BH, 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 Black Mountain Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 8, 2022, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 13, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2804 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N972BH 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N972BH. 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 October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data