Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC 135 T2+
N257BC is an Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh EC 135 T2+, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2012. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Broward County Sheriffs Office, a government body in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 2012 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 20, 2012. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eurocopter Deutschland Gmbh
- Model
- EC 135 T2+ · all EC 135 T2+s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1043
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Turbomeca ARRIUS 2B2 · 642 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A2719B (octal 50470633)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 10, 2012
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 20, 2012
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01092280
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Broward County Sheriffs Office
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 5253 NW 20Th Ter
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309-2740
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Documents on file 1
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N257BC, 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 Broward County Sheriffs Office, a government body, certificate issued September 10, 2012, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 20, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1043 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N257BC according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 14, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N257BC. 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