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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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Deutschland
- Model
- EC135T3 · all EC135T3s 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. Largely composite fuselage shells. This is how the Airbus Helicopters EC-135 now H135 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
- 2224
- 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 · Safran ARRIUS 2B2 · 642 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A0EBA6 (octal 50165646)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 6, 2026
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 8, 2024
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01453305
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- 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
Connections how N159AH links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters EC-135 now H135 396 registered
- Airbus Helicopters Deutschland 154 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Safran ARRIUS 2B2 38 aircraft with this engine series · 642 hp
- Type certificate H88EU · held by Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (Ahd)
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Nashville, TN 367 aircraft registered in this town
- John C Tune Airport · JWN
- Nashville International · BNA
- Tennessee 6,524 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters EC-135 now H135 79 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus Helicopters EC-135 now H135 1,521 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters EC-135 now H135 126 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Safran ARRIUS 2B2 6 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N159AH.json.
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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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data