Airbus EC120 Colibri — U.S. Fleet History & Risk Data
Helicopter · 70 aircraft on the U.S. registry · built 1999–2015
NTSB records whose airframe serial does not match the aircraft currently holding the registration are excluded, as are service difficulty reports filed while a registration belonged to a different aircraft. U.S. registrations get reused; these counts are reconciled to the airframes actually in this fleet.
Where this fleet reports maintenance difficulties
FAA Service Difficulty Reports filed against Airbus EC120 Colibri airframes, grouped by JASC system chapter — a factual picture of what mechanics actually report on this type.
- 65 — Tail Rotor Drive : 9 reports
- 62 — Main Rotor : 7 reports
- 29 — Hydraulic Power : 5 reports
- 63 — Main Rotor Drive : 5 reports
- 33 — Lights : 3 reports
Recent airworthiness directives matched to this type
- AD 2022-02-13 · effective 2022-03-17 — report of corrosion found on the external tail boom skin, under the Very High Frequency (VHF) antenna
- AD 2021-26-07 (recurring) · effective 2022-01-27 — report of recurrent loss of tightening torque on several attachment bolts on the TR hub body
- AD 2017-26-04 (recurring) · effective 2018-01-24 — We are superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2009-25-07 for Airbus Helicopters Model EC120B helicopters. AD 2009-25-07 required amending the rotorcraft flight manual supplement (RFMS) and pre-flight checking the emergency flotation gear before each flight over water. Since we issued AD 2009-25-07, Airbus Helicopters developed a terminating action and identified an additional part- numbered emergency floatation gear part with the unsafe condition. This new AD retains the requirements of AD 2009-25-07, expands the applicability, and adds a terminating action for the repetitive inspections. Th
- AD 2014-12-12 · effective 2014-08-04 — report that passengers in a helicopter were forced to exit through the pilot door after landing because they could not open the sliding door from the inside
- AD 2013-16-19 · effective 2013-09-27 — report of a float that would not inflate during overhaul because one of the float compartments was punctured due to chafing
ADs published since 2005 in our Federal Register database — the full list of directives applicable to an older airframe is longer; build it at drs.faa.gov. Open/superseded status reflects our last sync. Compliance for a specific airframe can only be verified in its logbooks — that's exactly what our per-aircraft report flags.