Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK117 D-3
N98CK is an Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK117 D-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2026. 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 March 18, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 25, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Inc
- Model
- MBB-BK117 D-3 · all MBB-BK117 D-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 21478
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Safran ARRIEL 2E · 894 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2026
- Transponder code
- ADA907 (octal 53324407)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 18, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 18, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · June 25, 2026
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- Ownership
- Fractional
- FAA record id
- 01547920
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N98CK, 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 March 18, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. Fractional ownership is recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated June 25, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21478 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N98CK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mitchell R Kyle + Cebert R QUICKIE (serial 98, cancelled September 12, 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 N98CK. 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