Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK117 D-3
N247NE is an Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK117 D-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2024. It has 9 seats. It is registered to New England Life Flight INC DBA, a corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 23, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 26, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Inc
- Model
- MBB-BK117 D-3 · all MBB-BK117 D-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 21291
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Safran ARRIEL 2E · 894 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A24B31 (octal 50445461)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 23, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 23, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · September 26, 2024
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 01447518
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 N247NE, 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 October 23, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated September 26, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21291 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N247NE 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 N247NE. 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