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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N479LF

Airbus Helicopters Deutschland EC135T3

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesPennsylvania

N479LF is an Airbus Helicopters Deutschland EC135T3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Geisinger Medical Center, a corporation in Danville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 8, 2025.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Geisinger Medical Center, so it can be flown for hire.

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Aircraft

Maker
Airbus Helicopters Deutschland
Model
EC135T3 · all EC135T3s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Largely composite fuselage shells. This is how the Airbus Helicopters EC-135 now H135 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
2314
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, 2 motors · Safran ARRIUS 2B2 · 642 hp
Seats
8
Year built
2025
Transponder code
A5E389 (octal 51361611)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 25, 2025
Expires
August 31, 2032
Last FAA action
August 25, 2025
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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 8, 2025
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01516497

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Geisinger Medical Center
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
100 N Academy Ave
Danville, PA 17822-9800
Charter N479LF with Geisinger Medical Center:

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N479LF links to the rest of the register

Design
Flies for
Engine
  • Safran ARRIUS 2B2 38 aircraft with this engine series · 642 hp
  • Type certificate H88EU · held by Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (Ahd)
Owner
Place

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N479LF, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Geisinger Medical Center, a corporation, certificate issued August 25, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated December 8, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2314 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N479LF according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N479LF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data