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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Airbus 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Deutschland
- Model
- MBB-BK117 D-3 · all MBB-BK117 D-3s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Composite rotor blades; composite fuselage shells on the newer designs. This is how the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK117 D-3 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 21019
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Safran ARRIEL 2E · 894 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A2794C (octal 50474514)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 16, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- September 21, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 24, 2022
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01344828
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rdv Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N259DV links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK117 D-3 94 registered
- Airbus Helicopters Deutschland 155 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Safran ARRIEL 2E 97 aircraft with this engine series · 894 hp
- Type certificate H13EU · held by Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (Ahd)
- Rdv Leasing LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Grand Rapids, MI 156 aircraft registered in this town
- Gerald R Ford International · GRR
- Michigan 7,231 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK117 D-3 21 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK117 D-3 35 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Safran ARRIEL 2E 5 airworthiness directives
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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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data