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Agustawestland Philadelphia AW139
N15460 is an Agustawestland Philadelphia AW139, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2012. It has 17 seats. It is registered to Variety Childrens Hospital DBA, a corporation in Miami, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 13, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 9, 2024.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Air Methods LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen today at 6:46 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Agustawestland Philadelphia
- Model
- AW139 · all AW139s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Agustawestland Philadelphia AW139 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 41323
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6C-67C · 1679 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 17
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A0DC4E (octal 50156116)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 13, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 15, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 9, 2024
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01103444
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Variety Childrens Hospital DBA
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3100 SW 62Nd Ave
Miami, FL 33155-3009 - Co-owners
- Nicklaus Childrens Hospital
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
Connections how N15460 links to the rest of the register
- Agustawestland Philadelphia AW139 99 registered
- Agustawestland Philadelphia 103 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Air Methods LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6C-67C 125 aircraft with this engine series · 1679 hp
- Type certificate R00002RD · held by Leonardo S P A
- Variety Childrens Hospital DBA 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Miami, FL 799 aircraft registered in this town
- Miami Executive · TMB
- Miami International · MIA
- Miami-Opa Locka Executive · OPF
- Dade-Collier Training And Transition Airport · TNT
- 1 more landing places in town
- Florida 21,696 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6C-67C 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6C-67C 131 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fire Detector, false activation · 2017-09-28
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fire Warning, false activation · 2017-09-27
- Report filed on this aircraft: Blade, eroded · 2002-05-30
- Where N15460 is now · Last seen today at 6:46 pm.
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The public federal record on N15460, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Variety Childrens Hospital DBA, a corporation, certificate issued February 13, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 9, 2024, 12 years after the 2012 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. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 41323 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N15460 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-76C (serial 760477, cancelled November 10, 2023); Piper PA-28-140 (serial 28-7225575, cancelled March 21, 1973); Porterfield 35-70 (serial 160, cancelled May 10, 1948). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N15460: Accident on August 31, 2002 at Miami, FL: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sikorsky S76A+ · operated under 091
The flight crew's diverted attention, inadequate visual lookout, and failure to ensure adequate main rotor clearance. Factors in the accident were the continued operation, with known obstructions in the area, and the failure of the FAA to initially certify the operation prior to its commencement.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data