{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2020-07-16","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-11-18","city":"GREENWOOD VILLAGE","country_code":"US","county_code":"005","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"60012","engine_horsepower":642,"engine_maker":"TURBOMECA","engine_model":"ARRIUS 2B2","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-12-23","maker":"Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"EUROCOPTER DEUTSCHLAND GMBH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5620031","mode_s_code":"53303703","mode_s_hex":"AD87C3","model":"EC 135 T2+","n_number":"N971EC","name":"AIR METHODS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N971EC is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC 135 T2+, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2011. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Air Methods LLC, an LLC in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 18, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 16, 2020.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Air Methods LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 18, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 16, 2020, 9 years after the 2011 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 0971 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N971EC 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N971EC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":12,"serial_number":"0971","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":"01095643","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N971EC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2011,"zip":"801111926"}