{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-08-15","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-06-06","city":"GRAND PRAIRIE","country_code":"US","county_code":"113","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"59998","engine_horsepower":894,"engine_maker":"SAFRAN","engine_model":"ARRIEL 2E","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-06-06","maker":"Airbus Helicopters Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AIRBUS HELICOPTERS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5620037","mode_s_code":"50011630","mode_s_hex":"A01398","model":"MBB-BK117 D-3","n_number":"N104AH","name":"AIRBUS HELICOPTERS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"HAMPTON","damage":"SUBS","date":"1994-10-15","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"NYC95LA028","probable_cause":"a seized piston in the foward cylinder due to a lean mixture.","registration":"N104AH","state":"NH","summary":"Accident on October 15, 1994 at Hampton, NH: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N104AH is an Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK117 D-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2021. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Airbus Helicopters INC, a non-citizen corporation in Grand Prairie, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated August 15, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Airbus Helicopters INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued June 6, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 15, 2025, 4 years after the 2021 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21016 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N104AH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Rans/Hine A F S 10 (serial 0588013, cancelled September 19, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N104AH: Accident on October 15, 1994 at Hampton, NH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Non-citizen corporation","registrant_type_code":"8","seats":9,"serial_number":"21016","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2701 N FORUM DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01338555","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N104AH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2021,"zip":"750528927"}