Airbus Helicopters Deutschland MBB-BK117 D-3
N259DV is an Airbus Helicopters Deutschland MBB-BK117 D-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2021. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Rdv Leasing LLC, an LLC in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 24, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Deutschland
- Model
- MBB-BK117 D-3 · all MBB-BK117 D-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 21019
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Safran ARRIEL 2E · 894 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A2794C (octal 50474514)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 16, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- September 21, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · January 24, 2022
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01344828
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rdv Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 200 Monroe Ave NW Ste 100
Grand Rapids, MI 49503-2213
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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 N259DV, 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 Rdv Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 16, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated January 24, 2022, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21019 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N259DV 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 N259DV. 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