Airbus Helicopters Deutschland MBB-BK117 D-3
N246NE is an Airbus Helicopters Deutschland MBB-BK117 D-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2023. It has 10 seats. It is registered to New England Life Flight INC DBA, a corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 30, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 14, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Deutschland
- Model
- MBB-BK117 D-3 · all MBB-BK117 D-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 21215
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Safran ARRIEL 2E · 894 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A2477A (octal 50443572)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 30, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · December 14, 2023
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 01414270
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- New England Life Flight INC DBA
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 150 Hanscom Dr
Bedford, MA 01730-2630 - Co-owners
- Boston Medflight
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N246NE, 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 New England Life Flight INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued August 30, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated December 14, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21215 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N246NE according to the deregistered file. [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 N246NE. 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