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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026
N541WE

Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK117 D-3

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes

N541WE 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 , a corporation. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 16, 2025.

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Aircraft

Maker
Airbus Helicopters Inc
Model
MBB-BK117 D-3 · all MBB-BK117 D-3s 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. 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
21413
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 · Safran ARRIEL 2E · 894 hp
Fuel
Jet A
Seats
9
Year built
2025
Transponder code
A6DD9C (octal 51556634)

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 24, 2026
Expires
April 30, 2033
Last FAA action
April 24, 2026
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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 16, 2025
FAA region
—
FAA record id
01519999

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Withheld at the owner's request
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

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N541WE links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Safran ARRIEL 2E 97 aircraft with this engine series · 894 hp
  • Type certificate H13EU · held by Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (Ahd)
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N541WE, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, a corporation, certificate issued April 24, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated December 16, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21413 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N541WE 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 N541WE. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data