Airbus Helicopters EC135 P3
N852LF is an Airbus Helicopters EC135 P3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 7 seats. It is registered to Airbus Helicopters INC, a non-citizen corporation in Grand Prairie, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 5, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters
- Model
- EC135 P3 · all EC135 P3s 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. 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
- 2372
- 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
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ABAFC6 (octal 52727706)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 5, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 5, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01579913
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Airbus Helicopters INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporationFAA type of owner code 8 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N852LF links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters EC-135 now H135 397 registered
- Airbus Helicopters 265 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Airbus Helicopters INC 73 aircraft in the fleet
- Grand Prairie, TX 157 aircraft registered in this town
- Grand Prairie Municipal · GPM
- Texas 29,853 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters EC-135 now H135 79 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus Helicopters EC-135 now H135 1,514 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters EC-135 now H135 126 supplemental type certificates
These connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N852LF.json · about the eFlight graph.
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The public federal record on N852LF, 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 October 5, 2026, expires October 31, 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 2372 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N852LF 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 N852LF. 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 7, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 7, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 7, 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 7, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data