Airbus Helicopters Deutschland MBB-BK117 D-3
N401MF is an Airbus Helicopters Deutschland MBB-BK117 D-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2015. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Dare County, a government body in Manteo, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated May 4, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Deutschland
- Model
- MBB-BK117 D-3 · all MBB-BK117 D-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 20024
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Turbomeca ARRIEL SERIES · 985 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A4B171 (octal 51130561)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 2015
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · May 4, 2022
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01172802
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dare County
- Type
- Government
- Address
- PO Box 1000
Manteo, NC 27954-1000
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N401MF, 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 Dare County, a government body, certificate issued April 23, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 4, 2022, 7 years after the 2015 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20024 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N401MF 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 N401MF. 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