Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK117 D-3
N45KV is an Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK117 D-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. It has 9 seats. It is registered to , an LLC. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 3, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 3, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Inc
- Model
- MBB-BK117 D-3 · all MBB-BK117 D-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 21358
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Safran ARRIEL 2E · 894 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A570B8 (octal 51270270)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 3, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 3, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · October 3, 2025
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 01494646
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- LLC
- Address
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N45KV, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an LLC, certificate issued February 3, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated October 3, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21358 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N45KV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Learjet Inc 45 (serial 338, cancelled May 23, 2014). 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 N45KV. 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