{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1988-11-04","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2009-12-09","city":"GREENWOOD VILLAGE","country_code":"US","county_code":"005","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41560","engine_horsepower":317,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"LTS-101 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-12-20","maker":"Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MESSERSCHMITT-BOLKOW-BLOHM","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5626013","mode_s_code":"53017560","mode_s_hex":"AC1F70","model":"BK 117 B-2","n_number":"N880SL","name":"AIR METHODS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Hartford","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-04-25","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"CEN25LA163","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to maintain directional control during the initial climb at night from a confined area landing zone, that resulted in an impact with a tree, a loss of control, and a subsequent impact with terrain.","registration":"N880SL","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on April 25, 2025 at Hartford, IL: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N880SL is a Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BK 117 B-2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1988. 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 December 9, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 4, 1988.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Air Methods LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 9, 2009, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated November 4, 1988, consistent with the 1988 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7130 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N880SL 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 N880SL: Accident on April 25, 2025 at Hartford, IL: serious 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":7,"serial_number":"7130","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5500 S QUEBEC ST STE 300","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00395380","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N880SL","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1988,"zip":"801111914"}