Safety record in brief:2 NTSB accidents (substantial damage at worst, latest Sep 2006)No ADs since 1998 matched1 service difficulty report
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The pilot's failure to adequately secure the external load rigging of an airplane that was suspended from the helicopter, which resulted in a load shift during cruise flight, producing an abrupt nose-down attitude, and the severing of the tailrotor drive shaft by the main rotor blades.
From NTSB records; matched by serial number.Read NTSB report (search CAROL for ANC06LA137)
The pilot's encounter with a ground resonance condition during the landing touchdown, which resulted in the shearing of a main rotor spacing cable bolt, and buckling of the tail boom.
From NTSB records; matched by serial number.Read NTSB report (search CAROL for ANC03LA042)
These match the airframe or engine model. Whether each one applies, and whether it's been complied with, depends on serial numbers, equipment and logbook entries. Applicability must be confirmed by a mechanic against the aircraft's records.
No ADs published since 1998 matched this airframe or engine model.
AI-extracted — verify against original. Matched from each AD's applicability section; ADs replaced by a later AD are left out.
Reports of failures and defects that operators and repair stations sent to the FAA since 1995. A report describes one finding; it is not an accident.
PILOT REPORTED GROUND RESIDENCE, UPON PULLING TO A HOVER HE STATED THAT HE HAD A 3 PER REV VIBERATION. AND MADE PRECAUTIONARY LANDING. UPON LANDING AND SHUTTING DOWN, HE NOTICED THAT THE MAIN ROTOR LIMITING CABLE WAS SEPARATED.
From FAA Service Difficulty Reports; matched by N-number and serial number.