Airbus 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Deutschland
- Model
- MBB-BK117 D-3 · all MBB-BK117 D-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 21122
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Safran ARRIEL 2E · 894 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- AD8B16 (octal 53305426)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 7, 2022
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- January 16, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · October 17, 2022
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01368549
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vertical Aviation No 1 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
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 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