- Registered owner
- Air Methods LLC
- Location
- Greenwood Village, CO
- Owner type
- LLC
- Serial number
- 0724
- Year built
- 2008
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Engine
- Turbo-shaft
- Airworthiness
- Standard, normal
- Airworthiness date
- November 19, 2008
- Certificate issued
- July 16, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Mode S code
- A01935
Eurocopter Deutschland EC 135 T2+TCDS H88EUAirframe · Eurocopter Deutschland EC 135 T2+TCDS E34NEEngine · Turbomeca ARRIUS-2B2
From the FAA registry file of October 24, 2026.
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Airworthiness directives that may apply · 19
Matched by this aircraft’s airframe and engine models. Each AD’s applicability may narrow it by serial number, part number or equipment.
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Airframe · Eurocopter Deutschland EC 135 T2+
AD 2026-20-06Main rotor gearboxAD 2026-17-05Cabin Equipment/FurnishingsAD 2026-08-10Passenger compartment equipmentInformation bulletins that may apply · 3
Advisory, not mandatory.
NTSB investigations
No NTSB investigations matched to N105VUMatched by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model. Investigations from before this aircraft carried the mark are under Earlier aircraft. Investigations on Eurocopter Deutschland EC 135 T2+ aircraft
FAA incident reports · 1
FAA accident and incident reports matched to this aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model.
Service difficulty reports · 13
Matched to this aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model.
SDR QMLA2025081820088Control Unit · failedNR 2 ENG FADEC FAIL IN FLIGHT. SLIDE ON LANDING NO DAMAGE. TROUBLESHOT DOWN TO NR 2 ENGINE FADEC ( EECU ) INOPERATIVE. READ POWER TO CONNECTORS, SWAPPED EECU WITH NR 1 SIDE AND PROBLEM FOLLOWED. INSPECTED AIRCRAFT FOR OTHER DAMAGE OF SKIDS AND SKID PLATES. ALSDR QMLA2024092320123Fadec · failed#1 ENG FADEC FAILED IN FLT.SDR QMLA2023111420103Motor · odorDURING SHUT DOWN AT JACKSON GENERAL HOSPITAL AFTER DROPPING OFF PATIENT, SMELLED AN ELECTRICAL BURNING SMELL COMING FROM COCKPIT. REPLACED BLOWER MOTOR.SDR QMLA2022031020018None · none23-5300-EO-3820 PART 1 EC 135- FRAME 5 INSPECTION AND REPAIR. DURING THE INSPECTION, NO CRACKS WERE FOUND. HOWEVER, WE HAD ALL THE PARTS IN HAND FOR THE REPAIR AND WHEN TALKING WITH SERVICE ENGINEERING THEY INSTRUCTED US TO CONTINUE WITH THE REPAIR. THIS ACFSDR QMLA2021120720063Evaporator · overtempON THE RETURN LEG HOME I TURNED ON THE FAN TO MOVE SOME AIR AROUND IN THE COCKPIT. AFTER APPROXIMATELY 10 MINUTES I SMELLED A "HOT" ELECTRICAL SMELL COMING FROM THE AIR VENTS. I TURNED THE FAN OFF AND THE SMELL DISSIPATED. I LANDED THE AIRCRAFT BACK AT BASE SDR QMLA2021120620062Unknown · odorPILOT REPORTED ALL THREE CREW MEMBERS SMELLED AN ELECTRICAL BURNING SMELL. PILOT TURNED OFF DEFOG, AND ALL VENTILATION, OPENED WINDOWS, MADE A PL AT NEAREST AVAILABLE, SUITABLE LZ. EVENT COULD NOT BE DUPLICATED. ACFT RETURNED TO SERVICE.SDR QMLA2017120417134Extension · crackedPERFORMED D 0560-100 HOUR/12 MONTH INSPECTION OF LANDING GEAR AND SKID EXTENSION. FOUND CRACK ON FWD LT CROSS TUBE EXTENSION. CRACK IS LOCATED ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE EXTENSION AND RUNS VERTICAL FROM THE UPPER MOUNTING BOLT TO THE TOP OF THE EXTENSION. REMOVED SDR QMLA2017092717099Transmission · making metalDURING FLIGHT, THE MAIN TRANSMISSION CHIP LIGHT ILLUMINATED. THE PILOT ADVISED CREW THAT THE MISSION WOULD BE ABORTED AND THEY WOULD LAND. THE PILOT REDUCED POWER AND MONITORED THE TRANSMISSION OIL PRESSURE AND LANDED LANDED SAFELY WITHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL ISSUSDR 2A6R2017051200002Guide · loosePOWER TURBINE NOZZLE GUIDE VANE SEAL HAS BECOME FREE TO ROTATE BETWEEN THE REAR BEARING SUPPORT AND THE POWER TURBINE NOZZLE GUIDE VANE ASSEMBLY. CUTTING THRU THE POWER TURBINE NOZZLE GUIDE VANE AND INTO THE REAR BEARING OIL RETURN DUCT AND CAUSING AN OIL LEASDR QMLA2017041817040Firewall · crackedWHILE PERFORMING AN AIRWORTHINESS INSPECTION, MECHANIC DISCOVERED A CRACK ON THE LEFT AFT LOWER FIREWALL. THIS FIREWALL WAS REMOVED AND REPLACED. THE AIRCRAFT HAS SINCE BEEN RETURNED TO SERVICE.SDR QMLA2017021717019Chip Detector · contaminatedPERFORMED FUZZ BURNER INSPECTION AT 0500, EVERYTHING CHECKED OUT FINE. PILOT GOT A CALL FOR A FLIGHT AND SAW A CHIP LIGHT SO HE ABORTED THE FLIGHT, UPON ARRIVAL INSPECTED AND CLEANED THE CHIP DETECTOR AND HAD THE PILOT RUN UP THE ENGINE TO ASSURE WE WERE GOOSDR QMLA2012052012086Magnetic Seal · wornNR 2 ENGINE CHIP LIGHT ILLUMINATED IN FLIGHT. ATTEMPTED TO BURN IAW RFM WITH NO SUCCESS. LANDED IAW RFM. MX INSPECTED CHIP DETECTORS AND FOUND CLASS B CARBON LIKE PARTICLES AND WIRE LIKE FILAMENTS ON REDUCTION GEARBOX CHIP PLUG. REMOVED AND INSPECTED STARTSDR QMLA2011112611112Motor · failedTHE PILOT NOTICED A STRONG BURNING SMELL ON APPROACH. AFTER UNEVENTFUL LANDING, MECHANIC WAS ABLE TO ISOLATE THE PROBLEM TO THE SLEWABLE SEARCH LIGHT MOTOR. THE SYS WAS DEFERRED AND THE ACFT RETURNED TO SERVICE.
Reports on N105VU not matched to an aircraft · 1
They name N105VU, but no registry record covers the date, the aircraft registered then was built later, or the report describes another aircraft.
STCs that may be installed · 71
Approved for this aircraft’s airframe or engine model. The registry doesn’t record which STCs an aircraft has; its records do.