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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Airbus Helicopters Deutschland MBB-BK117 D-3
N972AC is an Airbus Helicopters Deutschland MBB-BK117 D-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2022. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Vertical Aviation No 1 LLC, an LLC in Miami, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 7, 2022 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 17, 2022.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Air Methods LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen today at 10:10 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Deutschland
- Model
- MBB-BK117 D-3 · all MBB-BK117 D-3s 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. 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
- 21122
- 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
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- AD8B16 (octal 53305426)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 7, 2022
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- January 16, 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 17, 2022
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01368549
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vertical Aviation No 1 LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 830 Brickell Plz Ste 5000
Miami, FL 33131-2904
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
Connections how N972AC links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK117 D-3 94 registered
- Airbus Helicopters Deutschland 154 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Air Methods LLC · charter operator
- Safran ARRIEL 2E 94 aircraft with this engine series · 894 hp
- Type certificate H13EU · held by Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (Ahd)
- Vertical Aviation No 1 LLC 12 aircraft in the fleet
- Miami, FL 798 aircraft registered in this town
- Miami Executive · TMB
- Miami International · MIA
- Miami-Opa Locka Executive · OPF
- Dade-Collier Training And Transition Airport · TNT
- 1 more landing places in town
- Florida 21,712 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK117 D-3 21 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK117 D-3 34 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Safran ARRIEL 2E 5 airworthiness directives
- Where N972AC is now · Last seen today at 10:10 am.
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The public federal record on N972AC, 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 Vertical Aviation No 1 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 7, 2022, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated October 17, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21122 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N972AC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 310Q (serial 310Q0792, cancelled May 23, 2013). 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 N972AC. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data