Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK117 D-3
N809SP is an Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK117 D-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 9 seats. It is registered to Airbus Helicopters INC, a non-citizen corporation in Grand Prairie, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Inc
- Model
- MBB-BK117 D-3 · all MBB-BK117 D-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 21517
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AB04EA (octal 52602352)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 24, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01564078
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Airbus Helicopters INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 2701 N Forum Dr
Grand Prairie, TX 75052-8927
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N809SP, 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 Airbus Helicopters INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued June 24, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21517 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N809SP was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Mcdaniel Shayne W ZODIAC CH601XLB (serial SWM3-6-4682, cancelled November 19, 2019); Cessna 172S (serial 172S8112, cancelled December 17, 2007). 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]
1 NTSB record under N809SP: Accident on September 6, 2004 at Mount Gilead, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions which resulted in a collision with the runway. A factor was the crosswind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC04CA206 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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