Dehavilland DH115 VAMPIRE
N23105 is a Dehavilland DH115 VAMPIRE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1959. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Vampire Aviation LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2018 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 3, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DH115 VAMPIRE · all DH115 VAMPIREs and related versions
- Serial number
- 982
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turbojet, 1 motor · Dehav Eng GOBLIN MK 2&3 · 500 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 403 mph
- Transponder code
- A20EAD (octal 50407255)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 7, 2018
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- March 5, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · November 3, 2000
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00623523
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vampire Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 8702
Wilmington, DE 19899-8702
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N23105, 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 Vampire Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 7, 2018, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 3, 2000, 41 years after the 1959 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 982 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N23105 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 1869, cancelled July 24, 1991); Piper J3C-65 (serial 2894, cancelled August 18, 1970); Vanbenthuysen John BEDE BD-5 (serial 1950, cancelled date not given). 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 N23105: Accident on September 14, 1985 at Elkhart, IN: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Vanbenthuysen John BEDE BD-5B · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI85FET03 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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