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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Airbus 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.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Dare County, so it can be flown for hire.
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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
- 20024
- 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 · Turbomeca ARRIEL SERIES · 985 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A4B171 (octal 51130561)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 2015
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 4, 2022
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01172802
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dare County
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N401MF links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK117 D-3 94 registered
- Airbus Helicopters Deutschland 154 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Dare County · charter operator
- Turbomeca (Safran) ARRIEL series 31 aircraft with this engine series · 985 hp
- Type certificate H13EU · held by Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (Ahd)
- Dare County 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Manteo, NC 18 aircraft registered in this town
- Dare County Regional · MQI
- North Carolina 7,117 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 34 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Angle, broken · 2016-11-03
- Report filed on this aircraft: Connector, dirty · 2016-10-24
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N401MF.json.
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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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data