Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK117 D-3
N265BC 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 Broward County Sheriffs Office, a government body in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 13, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 28, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Inc
- Model
- MBB-BK117 D-3 · all MBB-BK117 D-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 21155
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Safran ARRIEL 2E · 894 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A291AC (octal 50510654)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 13, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 17, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · August 28, 2024
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01436120
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Broward County Sheriffs Office
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 2601 W Broward Blvd
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312-1308
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N265BC, 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 October 13, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated August 28, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21155 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N265BC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hawker Beechcraft Corp C90GTI (serial LJ-2065, cancelled October 21, 2016). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N265BC. 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