{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-06-06","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2013-06-12","city":"SHREVEPORT","country_code":"US","county_code":"017","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"60030","engine_horsepower":681,"engine_maker":"TURBOMECA","engine_model":"ARRIEL 1SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-11","maker":"Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"EUROCOPTER DEUTSCHLAND GMBH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5626025","mode_s_code":"50043543","mode_s_hex":"A04763","model":"MBB-BK 117 C-1","n_number":"N117NC","name":"TRIPLE M LEASING LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Fort Washington","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-05-19","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"ERA25LA204","probable_cause":"Maintenance personnel\u2019s failure to identify and replace damaged rivet nuts at the air conditioning louver assembly, which resulted in the separation of the louver assembly from the helicopter, the louver assembly\u2019s impact with the tail rotor, and subsequent loss of helicopter control.","registration":"N117NC","state":"PA","summary":"Accident on May 19, 2025 at Fort Washington, PA: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N117NC is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh MBB-BK 117 C-1, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Triple M Leasing LLC, an LLC in Shreveport, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2013 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 6, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Triple M Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 12, 2013, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 6, 2001, 4 years after the 1997 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 7517 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N117NC according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N117NC: Accident on May 19, 2025 at Fort Washington, PA: minor 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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":7,"serial_number":"7517","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"LA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1214 HAWN AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00233764","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N117NC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1997,"zip":"711076612"}