Airbus Helicopters Deutschland EC135T3
N159AH is an Airbus Helicopters Deutschland EC135T3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2023. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a corporation in Nashville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 8, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Deutschland
- Model
- EC135T3 · all EC135T3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2224
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Safran ARRIUS 2B2 · 642 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A0EBA6 (octal 50165646)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 6, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 8, 2024
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01453305
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1211 Medical Center Dr
Nashville, TN 37232-0004
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N159AH, 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 Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a corporation, certificate issued March 28, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 8, 2024, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2224 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N159AH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK 117 C-2 (serial 9694, cancelled May 18, 2015). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N159AH. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data