{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2004-08-16","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-03-02","city":"GREENWOOD VILLAGE","country_code":"US","county_code":"005","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52135","engine_horsepower":431,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"PW206B SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-03-31","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":"Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"EUROCOPTER DEUTSCHLAND GMBH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5620027","mode_s_code":"53130257","mode_s_hex":"ACB0AF","model":"EC 135 P2","n_number":"N917AC","name":"AIR METHODS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Quinhagak","damage":"MINR","date":"2001-05-18","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ANC01IA058","probable_cause":"An in-flight fracture of the engine crankshaft during descent, precipitated by restricted oil flow through an internal engine oil passage/port.","registration":"N917AC","state":"AK","summary":"Incident on May 18, 2001 at Quinhagak, AK: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N917AC is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC 135 P2, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2004. 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 March 2, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 16, 2004.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Air Methods LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 2, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated August 16, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0351 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N917AC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Eurocopter EC 130 B4 (serial 4192, cancelled May 13, 2014). 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 N917AC: Incident on May 18, 2001 at Quinhagak, AK: no injuries, minor 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":"0351","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":"00123989","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N917AC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2004,"zip":"801111926"}